The Current Sino-American Relationship and its Global Implications

In recent years, the increasing antagonism and mistrust between China and the United States have exacerbated the volatility of global geopolitics. The rivalry and conflict between the U.S. and China have become the most discussed topic in international relations over the past two years.

Considering the importance and severity of Sino-US competition, it is essential to understand: why do China and the U.S. change their actions? What contributes to the Sino-US rivalry? How would the competition affect the world? Our workshop aims to invite experts in this field to make a presentation and have a discussion about the current Sino-US relationship.

This workshop runs over three different days (22, 23 and 24 February). When you register, please let us know what days you intend to join us.

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers Tong Zhou and Yue Yang (PhD students in East Asian Relations, University of Edinburgh).

He is a Professor of Politics and International at the University of Warwick and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the co-editor of Pacific Review, a scientific advisor of FORAC, a senior research fellow at Wong MNC Center and an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies. From 2017 to 2020, Professor Breslin was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow.

Kerry Brown is a Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. He is an Associate of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London, an adjunct of the Australia New Zealand School of Government in Melbourne, and the co-editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. He lived in the Inner Mongolia region of China from 1994 to 1996. From 1998 to 2005, he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.

He is an expert on Chinese international relations, Chinese political economy, and Chinese elite politics (particularly the function and development of the Communist Party of China).

Dr. Andrew Chubb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. A graduate of the University of Western Australia, his work examines the linkages between Chinese domestic politics and international relations. More broadly, Andrew's interests include maritime and territorial disputes, strategic communication, political propaganda, and Chinese Communist Party history. Dr Andrew is an expert on Asia-Pacific regional politics, international relations of Chinese politics and foreign policy, the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese public opinion

Yongjin Zhang is a Professor of International Politics at the University of Bristol. His principal research interest and publications cut across the disciplinary boundaries of International Relations theory and Chinese history, politics, economic transformation and international relations. He belongs to the ‘English School’ approach in International Relations theory, but the broad theoretical approach he adopts is more appropriately regarded as eclectic. He has also published in the area of the political economy of Chinese global businesses and that of East Asian regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific. His most recent project is ‘China and the Transformation of International Society’ in cooperation with Dr Barry Buzan.

Kingsley Edney is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of China at the School of Politics and International Studies of the University of Leeds. Dr Kingsley joined the School of Politics and International Studies in 2013 after completing his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2012. He also has an MA in Politics from Melbourne and a BA(Hons) in Politics and Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington. Before coming to Leeds, he taught Chinese politics at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Dr Edney’s research field is China’s international relations. He primarily focuses on non-material areas of international security, such as culture, values and ideology. He is particularly interested in understanding how the Chinese Communist Party attempts to manage the globalisation of information and ideas in order to achieve its international and domestic security objectives. Dr Edney is an expert on the non-traditional security areas of China, Chinese soft power, and the Chinese regime. Dr Edney's study on Chinese propaganda in regard to soft power is closely tied to the popular issue of China's image construction.

Tong Zhou is a PhD student at the East Asian Studies program of the University of Edinburgh. She also has an MA in International Relations from Edinburgh. Her research interests generally revolve around foreign policy decision making and the influence of domestic factors in this process. She is also interested in East Asian Studies, China's Foreign Policy, and Foreign Policy Analysis fields. The title of her thesis is ‘An analysis on China’s foreign policy change from 2013 to 2020 from the domestic perspective’.

Yue Yang's research interests include Chinese politics, Sino-US relations, propaganda, and soft power. Yue is currently writing their PhD thesis entitled 'How does COVID19 pandemic and blame war influence Sino-US relations?'

Host or Publisher School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh