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Grant Newsham & Robert Dujarric: How should the US deal with China
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- Speakers:
- Grant Newsham (Senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies)
- Robert Dujarric (Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus)
In a recent article entitled “How to get tough with China” (co-written with Kerry Gershaneck), Grant Newsham argues that the US “approach to dealing with China from the Nixon-Kissinger era onwards resembles a forty-five-year science experiment—an experiment that has failed.” He concludes that America should be much more forceful in deterring China and must abandon the idea that a soft approach will serve the interests of the United States and its allies.
Grant Newsham and Robert Dujarric will have a discussion on the pros and cons of a new US policy towards the People’s Republic and we will then have a Q&A session with the audience.
Speakers:
Grant Newsham
Senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Retired US Marine Colonel Grant Newsham is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies in Tokyo. He served as the first US Marine Liaison Officer to the Japan Ground Self Defense Force and was instrumental in the development of the JSDF’s nascent amphibious capability. He is also a former US diplomat and served at the US Embassy, Tokyo in the 1990’s, and later returned for a stint as Marine Attaché. His research focuses on Asian defense and his articles have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Daily Yomiuri, Sentaku, USNI Proceedings, and other periodicals. His latest article is “How to get tough with China” in The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-get-tough-china-15928) written with Kerry Gershaneck. He holds a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Robert Dujarric
Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus
Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus