The Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

"Prospect of Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific - A Chinese Perspective"

by

Mr. Wu Xinbo
Center for American Studies
Fudan University

Discussants:

Mr. Bates Gill
Brookings Institution

Mr. Banning Garrett
Consultant on Asian Affairs

Tuesday, February 22, 2000
6:00 to 8:00 PM

at

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Choate Room, First Floor
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

For information on this event please contact Seminar Program
at 202 296-6695 or at seminar@spfusa.org

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia"
Seminar Program is supported by a grant from
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About This Seminar

There is growing discussion within the Asia-Pacific region about new steps toward multilateral security dialogues between China, Japan, the United States, Russia, and the Koreas. Others talk about a more limited security agreement between China, Japan, and the United States. New ideas are in the air. But China's views of these new security proposals are still taking shape. This seminar will provide an opportunity for one of China's leading academic advisors to the Beijing regime to spell out his thinking on this important topic. The talk will explain Chinese thinking on security multilateralism in the region and the Chinese vision of security relations in the next century.

About the Panelists

Main Speaker

Born in 1966 in Anhui Province, East China, Mr. Wu Xinbo, entered Fudan University in 1982 as an undergraduate student and received his B.A. in History in 1986, then his Ph.D. in International Relations from Fudan University in 1992. In the same year, he joined the Center for American Studies, Fudan University. In 1994, he spent one year at the George Washington University as a visiting scholar. In the Fall of 1997, he was a visiting fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, and at the Henry L. Stimson Center. Mr. Wu is currently at the Center for American Studies, Fudan University. He teaches China-US relations and writes widely about China's foreign policy, Sino-American relations and Asia-Pacific issues. Mr. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press, 1997) and has published numerous articles and book chapters in China, U.S., Japan, Germany, and India. He is also a frequent contributor to China's newspapers.

Discussants

Mr. Bates Gill is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He previously directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, Monterey, and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and formerly held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China. Mr. Gill received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, his research focuses primarily on political, security, and military-technical issues, especially with regard to China. His current research addresses the divergence in strategic outlook which characterizes the U.S.-China relationship. Mr. Gill is the author of China's Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A Quest for "Superb and Secret Weapons" (Oxford University Press, 1995) with Taeho Kim, Chinese Arms Transfers (Praeger, 1992), and co-editor of Arms, Transparency, and Security in Southeast Asia (Oxford University, 1997). He also has published many articles in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines.

Mr. Banning Garrett received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He has been a consultant to the U.S. government on Asian affairs for nearly twenty years. Mr. Garrett is also a Senior Associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and of the board of directors of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. He has written extensively on a wide range of issues, including Chinese foreign policy and views of the strategic environment, Sino-American relations, U.S. defense policy and Asian security, multilateral security in the Asia-Pacific region, Northeast Asian geopolitical perceptions, and Russian strategy toward Asia. Mr. Garrett has published articles in International Security, the Washington Quarterly, Asian Survey, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and other journals, and has contributed to many edited volumes on Asian affairs.

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.

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