The challenges and opportunities presented by China’s rise are hotly contested. ChinaPower hosted its fourth annual conference on December 4, 2019, featuring leading experts from both China and the U.S. to debate core issues underpinning the nature of Chinese power. The audience was polled for their opinion both before and after each debate. Polling results, debate descriptions, and conference videos are posted below.
Morning Keynote
Senator David Perdue
(R-Georgia)
Read the transcript of Senator Perdue’s keynote.
FOR: James Fanell
(Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet)
Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
AGAINST: Timothy R. Heath
Senior International Defense Researcher
RAND Corporation
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Proposition 2
FOR: Elizabeth Economy
C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
AGAINST: Wang Huiyao
Founder and President
Center for China and Globalization
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Proposition 3
FOR: Naomi Wilson
Senior Director of Policy, Asia
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
AGAINST: Joy Dantong Ma
Data Scientist
Home Partners of America
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Proposition 4
FOR: Christopher Balding
Associate Professor
Fulbright University Vietnam
AGAINST: Yi Xiong
Economist, China
Deutsche Bank
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Proposition 5
FOR: Jude Blanchette
Freeman Chair in China Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
AGAINST: Joseph Fewsmith
Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Afternoon Keynote
Assistant Secretary David R. Stilwell
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
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