The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business are pleased to announce the Fifteenth Annual N.T Wang Distinguished Lecture “A New Approach to US-China Engagement — Before It’s Too Late” featuring Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School and former Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia and moderated by Xiaobo Lü, Professor, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College.

With the US-China conflict now in the danger zone, there is a growing risk that a new cold war could veer into the accidental conflict of a kinetic hot war. This unfortunate outcome reflects an increasingly dysfunctional framework of engagement between the two superpowers. Stephen Roach will lay out his views on a new approach to conflict resolution grounded both in diplomacy and institutional collaboration. The opportunity to establish a new architecture of US-China engagement looms as an urgent post-election imperative.

Speakers’ Bios:

Stephen Roach has been a member of the Yale faculty since 2010. After thirteen years as the first senior fellow of Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, he joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley.

A rare combination of thought leadership on Wall Street and academia places Stephen Roach in the unique position as a leading practitioner of analytical macroeconomics. At Yale, he introduced new courses for undergraduates and graduate students on the “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan.” Dr. Roach’s current research program focuses on the conflict-prone US-China relationship.

His latest book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (Yale University Press, 2022) examines the ominous trajectory of conflict escalation between the United States and China and a provides a unique roadmap for conflict resolution. His 2014 book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China explored the risks and opportunities of the world’s most important economic relationship of the 21st century.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Stephen Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. Mr. Roach is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Investment Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Economics Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin, and the Advisory Board of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Xiaobo Lü was the founding Director of Columbia Global Centers | East Asia in Beijing in 2008-2010 and the former Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute from 2001-2003, 2004-2006, and spring 2008.  He has lectured at Tsinghua, Remin, Zhongshan, Peking, Jiaotong, City University of Hong Kong, Sciences Po, Paris University I-Sorbonne and participated in several conferences on regulatory reform and environmental governance in China. Professor Lü teaches courses on Chinese politics, political economy, and comparative politics. His research interests include post-socialist transition, corruption and good governance, regulatory reforms, and government-business relations. He has published widely on these subjects. Lü serves on the editorial boards of several international scholarly journals.

Lü is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, and the National Committee of US-China Relations. He is a regular commentator on China and US-China relations on PBS, CNN, BBC, and NPR and has delivered speeches and briefings to organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, the Asia Society, World Affairs Council, National Committee for US-China Relations, American Center for International Leadership, Asia Society, the China Institute of America, and the Japan Society.

Professor Lü received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He received an Individual Project Fellowship from the Open Society Institute and was appointed a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2001, he was named an International Affairs Fellow by the Council on Foreign Relations. He joined the Barnard faculty in 1994.

Schedule:

5:00-6:00PM – Lecture in Cooperman Commons
6:00-7:00PM – Reception in Alumni Suite

This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and cosponsored by China Center for Social Policy and the China and the World Program at Columbia University.

Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.