The U.K. Sees China as a Friend, Why Don't We?

The Committee of 100, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, will be hosting a forum featuring acclaimed author Martin Jacques and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Susan Shirk discussing the difference in how the U.K. and the U.S. treat their relationship with China.

Join two prominent China experts to discuss U.S.-U.K.-China relations. As Great Britain enters what some are calling the “Golden Era” of relations with China, the United States continues with its tenuous and tense relationship with the Middle Kingdom.  Given the historic closeness and cultural similarities between the US and the UK, what explains this tremendous difference in relations?

Understanding this question is relevant to the future of world peace and stability, and we have invited two speakers eminently qualified to shed light on this issue.  Our speakers will describe the stark difference in reception of President Xi in both the US and China, why the UK is going its own way with Chinese relations, and the implications arising from this issue.

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Martin Jacques: Author of global best-seller When China Rules the World; Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University; Visiting Professor, Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing; non-resident Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC; columnist for the Guardian.

Susan Shirk: Research Professor; Chair, 21st Century China Program at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego, author of China: Fragile Superpower, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia (1997-2000), founder of the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue.

This program is the second in a series of collaborations between the Committee of 100 and the Commonwealth Club of California.