There are many areas – in education, diplomacy, trade, technology and public health – in which small, positive steps can make a difference in the world's most important bilateral relationship, writes National Committee President Stephen Orlins in the South China Morning Post.
Former Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has been named chair of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. After nineteen years of dedicated service as chair, Ambassador Carla A. Hills will become honorary chair and remain on the board. Secretary Lew is the tenth chair of NCUSCR and is the fourth former cabinet member and second treasury secretary to serve in that role.
Relations will remain difficult – given widespread U.S. antagonism towards China – but the relationship will be better managed, writes David M. Lampton.
Bilateral investment between the world’s two biggest economies has come to a crashing halt with investment flows hitting a 9-year low in the first half of this year. This is the result of a confluence of factors that experts worry will hurt the broader China U.S. relationship. National Committee President Stephen Orlins offers his thoughts on the downturn in an interview with CGTN America.
Stephen Orlins, President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and former head of Carlyle Asia and Lehman Brothers Asia, discusses U.S. economic ties with China, challenges in the bilateral trading relationship, and the outlook for U.S.-China relations on Bloomberg Radio hosted by Paul Sweeney and Vonnie Quinn.
Stephen Orlins, President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and former head of Carlyle Asia, discusses the current state of U.S.-China relations, and why multilateral negotiations are the way to go on Bloomberg Radio hosted by Paul Sweeney and Vonnie Quinn.
President Biden needs a China policy that won’t be at cross purposes with his domestic aims, serves our strategic requirements, wins friends, and does not trap him in a dead-end of Trump’s devising, writes NCUSCR Board Director David M. Lampton in The National Interest.
NCUSCR President Stephen Orlins was interviewed on CGTN about the current state of the U.S.-China relationship and where things are headed. Recorded on 6/1/20.
The United States should recognize that its designation of China as a strategic competitor creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, NCUSCR President Stephen Orlins writes in the South China Morning Post.
What is at stake today are not only the lives and livelihoods of Americans but those of people around the world who will benefit or suffer depending on how well Americans and Chinese can bring their collective talent and energy together to find remedies, vaccines, and protocols to address COVID-19.