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With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate U.S. grand strategy for China to reflect today’s reality of two superpowers, with diametrically opposed governance ideologies, who have no choice but to co-exist. A new learning experience for both. POLARIS-LIVE invites leading experts and authors from the U.S., Asia, the EU, and around the world to converse with host Sarwar KASHMERI about their thoughts re what should be a 21st Century U.S. grand strategy for China. This schedule presents the dates/times/links to join the 40 minutes live programs through the end of June 2021. Each episode will be archived on the Polaris-Live channel and may also be accessed by the same links shown below.

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1 June 2021 1030 ET • Development & Security in China’s Foreign Policy
Professor Matt FERCHEN, Head of Global China Research at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin, and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, where he runs the China and the Developing World Program. What should be the U.S. response to the China model of development – The Belt and Road Initiative.
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8 June 2021 2130 ET • Geopolitics of Trade and Regional Integration in East Asia
Professor Juita MOHAMAD, Fellow in the Economics, Trade and Regional Integration (ETRI) Division of ISIS Malaysia, a key country in East Asia’s 21st Century economic power structure. Dr. Mohamad will add a critically important voice to better understand how the U.S. — China strategic competition is viewed in one of East Asia’s most dynamic economies.
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15 June 2021 1030 ET • A Cultural Anthropologist’s View of the Geopolitics of the U.S. & China
Professor Carol MCGRANAHAN, University of Colorado, a leading Cultural Anthropologist will help Polaris-Live viewers view the U.S. – China eye ball to eye ball competition: Might the strategic competition between the U.S. and China center on issues of colonialism, how rising powers behave, the surprise at how quickly China has risen from the cultural revolution and surprise at the speed that an economy that produced nothing but poverty, has transformed itself to what it is today? A feeling among some that China is bent on dominating the world?
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22 June 2021 0930 ET • Among the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China
Professor Michele Geraci returns to Polaris-live to speak about his recent visit to Xinjiang and his conversations with the Uighur Muslim minority. Is China really involved in Genocide there? massive human rights violations? A first hand account from the Mandarin speaking former Under Secretary of State for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development..
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With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate or fine-tune U.S. strategy for China to reflect today’s reality. Over the course of February, March, and April 2021 leading experts from Asia, the EU, and the U.S. will converse with Polaris-Live host Sarwar Kashmeri, under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association, about their thoughts re what should be key agenda items that they would propose to President Biden’s team. This schedule presents the dates/times/links to join the 40 minutes live programs through the end of March 2021. Each episode will be archived on the Polaris-Live channel and may also be accessed by the same links shown below. The FPA will publish a report mid-year 2021 to summarize the conversations and distribute it in printed and PDF formats.

Please join us for these special interviews every Tuesday on Polaris-Live with your host, Sarwar Kashmeri.

4 May 2021 0930 ET
Ryan Hass is the author of “Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence,” March 2021. He is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials on all aspects of U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward this region.
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11 May 2021 1030 ET
Jonathan Fulton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has written widely on China-Middle East relations for both academic and popular publications. He is the author of the China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies and co-editor of External Power and the Gulf Monarchies.
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18 May 2021 0930 ET
David Denoon is professor of politics and economics at New York University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), the Asia Society, the U.S.-Indonesia Society, and is Co-Chairman of the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Southeast Asia. He is also chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of Great Decisions, and the author of 7 books including Real Reciprocity: Balancing U.S. Economic and Security Policy in the Pacific Basin.
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25 May 2021 1030 ET
Meenakshi AHAMED is a freelance journalist and has written on American foreign policy for publications such as Foreign Policy, The Asian Age, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Seminar. She was the London correspondent for NDTV from 1989-1996. Meenakshi holds a post-graduate degree from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in development economics and public health. She is based in Washington, DC and New York City.
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With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate or fine-tune U.S. strategy for China to reflect today’s reality. Over the course of February, March, and April 2021 leading experts from Asia, the EU, and the U.S. will converse with Polaris-Live host Sarwar Kashmeri, under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association, about their thoughts re what should be key agenda items that they would propose to President Biden’s team. This schedule presents the dates/times/links to join the 40 minutes live programs through the end of March 2021. Each episode will be archived on the Polaris-Live channel and may also be accessed by the same links shown below. The FPA will publish a report mid-year 2021 to summarize the conversations and distribute it in printed and PDF formats.

Please join us for these special interviews every Tuesday on Polaris-Live with your host, Sarwar Kashmeri.

6 April 2021 09:30 ET
Li Xing, Professor Department of Politics and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanity, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests and teaching areas include international political economy, international relations, emerging powers and world order. In recent years, apart from publishing numerous international and Chinese journal articles, he has edited a number of book series on the theme of the rise of China/emerging powers and the existing world order.
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13 April 2021 07:30 ET
Yan Xuetong, President Management Board–Carnegie-Tsinghua Center Global Policy. He is one of China’s leading experts on China’s foreign policy, national security, and U.S.-China relations. At Tsinghua University, he is dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations.
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20 April 2021 09:30 ET
Lynette H. Ong is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed at the Asian Institute and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research interests are authoritarian politics, contentious politics and the political economy of development. She is an expert of China and Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia.
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27 April 2021 10:00 ET
Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Haenle served as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama prior to joining Carnegie.
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With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate or fine-tune U.S. strategy for China to reflect today’s reality. Over the course of February, March, and April 2021 leading experts from Asia, the EU, and the U.S. will converse with Polaris-Live host Sarwar Kashmeri, under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association, about their thoughts re what should be key agenda items that they would propose to President Biden’s team. This schedule presents the dates/times/links to join the 40 minutes live programs through the end of March 2021. Each episode will be archived on the Polaris-Live channel and may also be accessed by the same links shown below. The FPA will publish a report mid-year 2021 to summarize the conversations and distribute it in printed and PDF formats.

Please join us for these special interviews every Tuesday on Polaris-Live with your host, Sarwar Kashmeri.

2 March 2021 09:30 ET
George Magnus, UK based Research Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. George was the Chief Economist, and then Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank; and Mark Chandler, Managing Director, Bannockburn Global Forex.
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9 March 2021 09:30 ET
Mr. Shuja Nawaz, Washington based Political and strategic analyst. He is a Distinguished Fellow, South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council In Washington DC. He is the author of “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within” (Oxford University.)
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16 March 2021 07:30 ET
Professor Zha Daojiang, Professor of International Political Economy, School of International Studies, Peking University. Specializes in studying non-traditional security issues China is facing, including energy, food, international rivers and public health.
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23 March 2021 09:30 ET
Bonnie Glaser, Asia expert, Bonnie Glaser, is senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.
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30 March 2021 09:30 ET
Mr. Arthur R. Kroeber focuses on China’s political economy and its engagement with global economic institutions. He is managing director of GaveKal Dragonomics
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With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate or fine-tune US strategy for China to reflect today’s reality. Beginning 27 January 2021 and over the course of three months leading experts from Asia, the EU, and the U.S. will converse with Polaris-Live host Sarwar Kashmeri, Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and Applied Research Fellow, Norwich University, about their thoughts re what should be key agenda items that they would propose to President Bidens team.

Please join us for these special interviews every Tuesday on Polaris-Live with your host, Sarwar Kashmeri.

26 Jan 2021 0930 EST
Pamela Crossley, Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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2 Feb 2021 0700 EST
Dr. Parag Khanna, Founder and Managing Partner, FutureMap
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9 Feb 2021 0930 EST
Dr. Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, former Asia head on President Obama’s National Security Council
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16 Feb 2021 0930 EST
Prof. Michele Geraci, former Under-Sec of State Govt. of Italy, responsible for the China-Italy Belt and Road Initiative MoU, now teaching at New York University Shanghai and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)
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23 February 2021 0700 EST
Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
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Join Sarwar Kashmeri as Polaris-Live reconvenes on Tuesday, 26 January 2021, with expert guests including Professor Pamela Crossley, Dr. Parag Khanna; Dr. Ryan Hass,; Hon Michele Garaci, and Professor Kishore Mahbubani.

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