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What You Need to Know About China
Hardening Competition and Deep Interdependence. Ryan Haas, The Brookings Institution’s top expert on China, will provide insight and knowledge linking together a number of critical strategies active in China today that will impact the United States – both positively and negatively. Haas’s in-depth understanding of China’s history through their actions today will frame their intent, strategies, influence, and why we need to be aware and concerned.

• Friend or Foe?
• Partner or Competitor?
• Law Abiding or Lawless?
• Military Strategies and Actions Political Strategies and World Influence Their Key Issues
• Key Long Term Initiatives

You will gain understanding of the strategies and influence of how China’s top leadership directs their economic, military, political, U.S. relationships, world influence, science and technology developments, approach to copyright and patent law, human condition, climate, and more.

Ryan Hass

Our speaker, Ryan Hass, 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. He is also the Interim Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.

From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. He joined President Obama’s state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington respectively in 2014 and 2015, and the president’s delegation to Hangzhou, China, for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meetings in 2016. Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as
a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing. Hass also served in Embassy Seoul and Embassy Ulaanbaatar, and domestically in the State Department Offices of Taiwan Coordination and Korean Affairs.

Ryan Haas graduated from the University of Washington and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies prior to joining the State Department.

Ryan Haas is the author of STRONGER – Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence, published by Yale University Press in April 2021.