Andrew Mertha: The Current State of US-China Relations and its Impact on Future Scholarly Collaboration
One of the greatest beneficiaries of the US-China relationship over the past half-century has been educational exchanges and the resulting mutual understanding between the two countries. But in the past two decades, we have seen a decline in access, autonomy, and trust within the context of the changing bilateral relationship. This has undermined our ability to understand one another. As a pernicious result, dwindling access shapes the questions that drive our research. Our understanding of China is therefore distorted and incomplete. This distorted understanding, in turn, hurts our ability to advise policymakers on both sides. In this presentation, Prof. Mertha seeks to present the “state of the field,” so that we might consider the next steps forward.(报名方式见文末)