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Professor David M. Lampton, based on recent trips to China and his 2024 book entitled Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War, discusses the intertwined issues that are becoming progressively more difficult for both Washington and Beijing to constructively manage. Security ties are especially important because they spill over into economic, cultural, and diplomatic relations. The world is watching Beijing and Washington, counting on these two great powers to responsibly manage their interactions.
This program is part of China Center's "Considering China Webinar Series", exploring important topics related to China's many facets with the local community.
About the Speaker
David M. Lampton is Senior Research Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies—SAIS. For more than two decades he was Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at SAIS. Lampton is former Chairman of the The Asia Foundation in San Francisco, former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York, and former Dean of Faculty at SAIS. His many publications, academic and popular, deal with US-China Relations, Chinese Foreign Policy, Chinese Leadership, Chinese Politics, and Chinese Power. A recent volume written with two colleagues tells the exciting story of China’s drive to build high-speed railways in Southeast Asia—Rivers of Iron. In January 2024, Rowman & Littlefield published his book entitled: Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in political science where, as an undergraduate student, he was a firefighter. Lampton has an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies. He is a Life Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Colorado College, Trustee and Chairman Emeritus of The Asia Foundation, and was in the US Army Reserve in the enlisted and commissioned ranks.