Announcement
President Trump's trade and technology wars against China have on net created a lose-lose-and-lose outcome for the two countries and the rest of the world. Can the situation change to a win-win-and-win pattern under a Biden administration? This will require some fact-based diagnosis of the nature of the economic frictions. It may also require a different kind of bilateral discussions focusing more on structural reforms in China rather than numerical import targets, depoliticization of trade policies by all parties, multilateral efforts at WTO reforms, and considerations of trade and economic relations in a larger context of addressing major challenges to the global society including climate change management.
Information
- Time and Date: Friday, December 11, 2020
- Language: English
- Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Speakers
- Speaker: Randolph BELL (Director and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security, Atlantic Council)
Randolph Bell is the director of the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center (GEC) and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security. He oversees the center's research and programs in Washington and elsewhere, including the annual Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi. He joined the Global Energy Center in 2017 as its director of business strategies. From 2014–2016, Mr. Bell led the launch of the center in his capacity as director of business development and new ventures for the Atlantic Council.
From 2011–2014, Mr. Bell was managing director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)–US, where in addition to holding overall responsibility for the operations and programming of the IISS's Washington, DC office he published extensively on African, South Asian, and cyber security issues. From 2010–2011, he was manager of national security at the Markle Foundation, where he worked on cyber security, intelligence community information sharing, and technology policy issues.
Mr. Bell has an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was a Public Service and Belfer International and Global Affairs fellow, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. - Commentator: TAKEDA Shinjiro (Director, Industrial Research Division, JETRO NY)
- Commentator: KAWAGUCHI Yukihiro (Director Global Environment Affairs Office METI)
- Moderator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)
