Wednesday, April 8, 2015
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
6th Floor Auditorium, The Wilson Center
Major Inflexion Points in Sino-American relations Richard Bernstein’s new book, China 1945,
explores the histories, interests, assumptions, and personalities that
shaped bilateral relations for three decades in the final year of World
War II. His gripping study asks whether an opportunity to
forge productive relations with the PRC was “lost” by China hands and
American leaders, or whether the United States of the mid-20th Century
was faced with an essentially Chinese drama in which it could play only a
minor role.
Please join us for a new look at
U.S.-China relations circa 1945 and a discussion of the goals, beliefs,
and contingencies that shaped, and are shaping, two other inflexion
points in the relationship: the Opening of 1972 to 1979, and the fraught
reassessment of U.S.-China relations that we are in the midst
of today, when we face neither a Chinese civil conflict nor a Cold War,
but the question of what kind of great power China is becoming, and how
the United States should respond.
Speakers
Richard Bernstein
Distinguished journalist and author, China 1945
Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Scholar, The Wilson Center
Moderator
Robert Daly
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, The Wilson Center
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