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.
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.
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.
