On December 7, 2017, a round table discussion on the subject of “Trump’s Foreign Policy and Sino-U.S. Relations” was co-hosted by the American Studies Center, Peking University and the Institute For China-U.S. People-to-People Exchange, Peking University in Room C104 of School of International Studies, Peking University.
The discussion invited Jake Sullivan, a heavyweight guest who was former US Vice President Biden’s national security adviser, Hillary Clinton’s general counsel for foreign policy, and one of Democrat’s most important foreign policy ministers; senior fellow and director of the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for international Peace; senior advisor to the U.S. Government’s Iranian Nuclear Negotiation Program; visiting scholar at Yale Law School; former director of the Department of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department; bachelor of Arts at Yale University; Rhode Scholarship Winner in 2000; master of International Relations at Oxford University, JD of Yale. The seminar also invited Professor Wang Suolao, director of the Center for Middle East Studies of Peking University; Professor Zhuang Junju, director of the Editorial Department of the Journal International Political Research; Associate Professor Chen Shaofeng of the Department of Comparative Political Science; Associate Professor Guo Jie and Assistant Professor Lei Shaohua of the Department of Comparative Politics; Associate Professor Jie Dalai of the Department of International Politics, Assistant Professor Xu Liang of the Asia-Africa Institute, and Liang Yabin, Associate Professor of the International Strategic Research of the Central Party School, served as guests of China. The roundtable discussion was moderated by Associate Professor Wang Dong, deputy secretary-general of American Studies Center, Peking University and executive deputy director of the Institute For China-U.S. People-to-People Exchange, Peking University.
At the meeting, Sullivan analyzed the characteristics of Trump's foreign policy and proposed a different understanding from traditional assumptions. He thought that many of Trump's policies were not isolationism but nationalism, emphasized the focused areas of U.S. strategy in his sights, and expressed their views on the situation in different regions such as the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. The distinguished guests of both China and the United States held in-depth discussions on Trump's foreign policy and development expectations. The questions from teachers and students at the scene were also answered by the guests of the United States. The atmosphere of the meeting was warm and friendly.
After the meeting, Sullivan expressed that he was very satisfied with the quality and great harvest of this seminar. He is willing to continue to strengthen exchanges with the School of International Studies of Peking University in the future. Teachers and students from School of International Studies and Yenching Academy of Peking University, and Carnegie Center for Global Policy of Tsinghua University participated in the seminar. The successful roundtable discussion was held to promote the non-governmental academic exchange between China and the United States and had deepened the understanding of Trump’s foreign policy and Sino-U.S. relations among teachers and students present here.
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