Contested Terrain: China's Periphery and International Relations in Asia

The Foreign Policy Research Institute presents a talk on China and International Relations in Asia.

China’s long-term rise and its recent international assertiveness have made long-standing and recently emerging issues of relations along China’s periphery matters of pressing international concern. The rapid development that has provided the material underpinnings for China’s rapid rise as a regional power has been fueled partly by economic integration along China’s periphery. Foreign investment flows, integration in a regional supply chain that feeds global markets and burgeoning intraregional trade have made Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and other states in East Asia key participants in China’s rise and eroded the economic significance of political borders in the region.

This conference will address this complex cluster of issues through papers and panels, each of which will be organized along geographic lines but will also have a distinct analytical focus on the issues most germane to the region.

Featuring presentations by:
Michael Green, Georgetown University and Center for Strategic and International Studies
Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
John Garver, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Allen Carlson, Cornell University
Jacques deLisle, FPRI and University of Pennsylvania
Michael C. Davis, University of Hong Kong

This event will be webcast.