U.S.-China Relations Under President Obama's Watch

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Room C/D

Free

U.S. - China Relations Under President Obama’s Watch:
Shaping the Regional Context of China’s Rise

Suisheng Zhao, PhD, is a professor and director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of 2010 at University of Denver.

A founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, he is member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a member of National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a research associate at the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research in Harvard University, and an honorary jianzhi professor at Beijing University, Renmin University, China University of International Relations, Fudan University and Shanghai Foreign Studies University.

A Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, he was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine and visiting assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at University of California-San Diego. He received his PhD degree in political science from the University of California-San Diego, MA degree in Sociology from the University of Missouri and BA and MA degrees in economics from Peking University. He is the author and editor of more than ten books, including: China and East Asian Regionalism: Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building (Routledge 2011), and China and the United States, Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008).