Major Power Competition Between China and the U.S.: From Trump 1.0 to 2.0

On August 18, Professor Suisheng ZHAO, tenured Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemporary China, will join the 19th session of the US Series under the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) Forum for Area Studies, for a dialogue with Professor WANG Wen, Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and the School of Global Leadership, Renmin University of China. on the theme “Major Power Competition Between China and the U.S.: From Trump 1.0 to 2.0.”The event agenda is as follows:

Hosts

Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY)  

School of Global Leadership, Renmin University of China

Date

Monday, August 18, 2025, 10:30–12:00

Venue

Beijing, China

Languages

Chinese

Panelists

Suisheng ZHAO, Professor, Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs; Director, Center for China-US Cooperation, University of Denver

WANG Wen, Dean, RDCY; Dean, School of Global Leadership, Renmin University of China

Panelist Biography

Suisheng ZHAO is a tenured Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. He is also a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (SSCI-indexed, 2021 Impact Factor: 3.748). Heserved as a Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine. He has also served on the board of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

Professor Zhao holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California–San Diego, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Missouri, and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Peking University.He has authored and edited over twenty books, including Power by Design, A Nation-State by Construction, and Power Competition in East Asia. His most recent book, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press),was named one of “Best of Books 2024” by Foreign Affairs magazine. He has published over one hundred academic and policy articles in journals such as The Washington Quarterly, The Wilson Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China.