Has China Won?
Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine and Asia Research Institute distinguished fellow Kishore Mahbubani joined Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss US-China relations in 2020.
About This Event
The United States and China are locked in a geopolitical contest for technological, ideological, and military supremacy that will define the 21st century. If anything, the global spread of COVID-19 has only intensified this competition, throwing these powers' contrasting global outlooks and ambitions-as well as their limitations-into sharp relief. What does this crisis reveal about US-China relations in 2020? Could the pandemic and its economic fallout alter their global trajectories? Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine and Asia Research Institute distinguished fellow Kishore Mahbubani join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss.
About the Speakers
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
Former President, United Nations Security Council
Kishore Mahbubani is currently a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Before embarking on a career in academia, he was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years. With postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington, DC, and New York, he also served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as President of the UN Security Council.
Richard Fontaine
CEO, Center for a New American Security
Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS, served as president of CNAS from 2012–19 and as senior fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain and worked at the State Department, the National Security Council, and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.