This conference is part of an ongoing multi-year project on Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Exploring Domestic Foreign Policy Debates, conducted by Professors Henry Nau and Deepa Ollapally at the Sigur Center, and supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers examines the internal discussions of foreign policy taking place in five aspiring powers – China, India, Japan, Russia and Iran. The initial phase of the project produced a volume to be published in September 2012 by Oxford University Press entitled, Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan and Russia. The chapters identify different foreign policy schools of thought in each aspiring power and the media, institutions, or universities with which these schools are associated.

In the next phase of the project, we seek to present these viewpoints directly to the Washington community through a series of conferences. The first conference, on India, was held in January of this year. The second is the China conference you are about to watch.

9:30-9:45 am

Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Henry R. Nau (GWU)

9:45-10:45 am

Session I: Chinese Views on National Security and Defense

Chair: David Shambaugh (GWU)

• Shen Dingli- Executive Dean, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University 
• Zhu Chenghu- Major General & Professor, PLA National Defense University  
• Zhu Liqun- Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University

10:45-11:00 am

Break

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Session II: Chinese Views on Economics, International Institutions, and Transnational Issues

Chair: Robert Sutter (GWU)

• Shen Dingli- Executive Dean, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
• Zhu Chenghu- Major General & Professor, PLA National Defense University
• Zhu Liqun- Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University

12:15-1:00 pm

Luncheon

1:00-1:45 pm

Keynote Address: Jane Harman – Director, President, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

2:00-3:15 pm

Session III: American Views on US-China Relations

Chair: Henry R. Nau (GWU)

• Dan Blumenthal- Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Ted Carpenter- Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, CATO Institute
• Michael Green- Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Michael Swaine- Senior Associate, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

3:15-3:30 pm

Coffee/Tea Break

3:30-4:30 pm

Session IV: Chinese Views on US Foreign Policy

Chair: J. Stapleton Roy (WWICS)

• Shen Dingli- Executive Dean, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
• Zhu Chenghu- Major General & Professor, PLA National Defense University
• Zhu Liqun- Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University

4:30-4:45 pm

Closing Remarks: Deepa Ollapally (GWU)