Teleconference: Obama-Xi Meeting: Lowering Expectations?

Prime Minister Abe, President Obama and General Secretary Xi will all be in Beijing next week at a critical moment for both bilateral and trilateral relationships. Join the Wilson Center BY PHONE as three experts in China and Japan discuss what the leaders might do to offer reassurance and set the region and the relationships on a better path?

President Obama is scheduled to meet with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping this weekend. Since their last meeting in 2013, relations between Beijing and Washington have deteriorated.

Bad as U.S.-China relations are, Sino-Japanese tensions are worse. Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping have not met since they became the leaders of their respective countries and China continues to send ships and aircraft into the vicinity of the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands.

Prime Minister Abe, President Obama and General Secretary Xi will all be in Beijing next week at a critical moment for both bilateral and trilateral relationships. Join the Wilson Center BY PHONE as three experts in China and Japan discuss what the leaders might do to offer reassurance and set the region and the relationships on a better path.

Speakers:

Robert Daly
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, The Wilson Center

Yoichiro Sato
Director of International Strategic Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University

Zheng Wang
Associate Professor, Seton Hall University and Wilson Center Global Fellow

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