

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
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Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Executive Director, Project 2049 Institute
Director of Asian Studies and Resident Fellow, AEI
Former Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy
Michael Pillsbury was senior fellow and director for Chinese strategy at Hudson Institute.
The U.S.–China relationship has so far been the subject of relatively infrequent--and only very general--debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. But it remains a huge and vexing question. Barack Obama’s successor will have significant decisions to make about near- and long-term American strategy in Asia, as Beijing continues to challenge--and seeks to supplant--traditional U.S. influence in the Western Pacific.
Already this year, on May 26, the Chinese military has released a formal “White Paper” outlining a new and strikingly aggressive national policy of “active defense.” And later this month, during the Communist Party Central Committee’s annual plenary session, Beijing will approve and announce its 13th “Five Year Plan” for economic development--which is expected to highlight President Xi Jinping’s ambitious “One Belt, One Road” program to bring 65 different countries (accounting for almost two-thirds of the world’s population) further into the “Chinese sphere.”
What more should we anticipate from China in the coming months and years? What are Beijing’s broadest goals--and how should America’s next president position the United States and its allies in response? On October 23, Hudson Institute welcomed four leading Asia specialists for a searching discussion of these important issues: Dan Blumenthal (Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute) and Jacqueline Deal (President and CEO of the Long Term Strategy Group) have both contributed full-length chapters to a recent John Hay Initiative report on the future of American foreign policy. Mark Stokes (Executive Director of the Project 2049 Institute) is the former team chief and senior country director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Senior Fellow Michael Pillsbury, Director of Hudson’s Center for Chinese Strategy, moderated the panel.
An update on the war in Ukraine with Žygimantas Pavilionis, Radoslaw Fogiel, and Oleksandr Merezhko, chairs of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committees of Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine, respectively.
Join Hudson Institute and International Republican Institute experts in welcoming award-winning Angolan investigative journalist Rafael Marques as he presents new information about the malign influence of Chinese aid.
Hudson Distinguished Fellow and former US Attorney General Bill Barr and Hudson Media Fellow Jeremy Hunt discuss how policymakers can restore the rule of law to America's southern border.
Hudson Institute will host Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Dr. Ely Rattner and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Lindsey W. Ford for a conversation on the Department of Defense’s vision for building a more resilient security architecture in Southeast Asia.