A New Cold War in the Indo-Pacific?

Dr Auslin has argued that the US and China are on a collision path, over a range of issues, including but not limited to semi-conductors, Taiwan, and Ukraine. Over the last two decades, the nature of the relationship between the US and China has changed considerably. Dr Auslin contended that the US faces two conflicting policy choices: either attempt to create a stable political equilibrium in Asia or pursue a greater competition with China. The outcome of this policy decision, he argued, will shape US foreign policy in the region for the coming generation. 

About the Speaker: 

Dr Auslin is the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the Senior Advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum. Previously, he was an associate professor of history at Yale University and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018. He is the author of half a dozen books, among them Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific which was published by Hoover Institution Press in 2020.