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Analysis & Opinions - Foreign Affairs

Pathogens Have the World’s Attention: The United States Should Lead a New Push Against Bioweapons

| Mar. 16, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden has spoken frequently of restoring the United States’ credibility as a global leader. That task, which comes at a moment of global crisis, will require the United States to recommit to multilateral diplomacy, even while managing a dangerously deteriorating relationship with China. By acting on biosecurity—a neglected priority hiding in plain sight—Biden can make progress on all of these goals. Washington has an opportunity to lead in an era of heightened great-power competition, address the need for arms control measures that reduce the risk of biological weapons, and potentially even push China to cooperate to that end.  

Harvard’s Lawrence Summers speaks at the U.S.-China conference with Tao Wenzhao, senior research fellow with the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Studies.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

U.S., China Experts Confront New Challenges Amid Uncertainties

| Summer 2016

For nearly a decade, Harvard Kennedy School has contributed to mutual understanding between China and the United States through an annual series of dialogues between Harvard scholars and top Chinese academics. The latest collaboration in this series on U.S.-China relations, a joint conference with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was held April 14-16 at Harvard. The conference was organized by the Belfer Center’s Richard Rosecrance, director of the Project on U.S.-China Relations.

Discussion during 'The Rise of China and the US-Japan alliance'

Bennett Craig

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Japan Speaker Series: The Rise of China and the US-Japan alliance

The Belfer Center hosted a half-day conference on March 23, 2017, gathering a group of top-level American and Japanese academics to discuss the US-Japan alliance and the rise of China. The event was well attended by scholars and students of Harvard and nearby universities, including a large group of scholars from the US Naval War College. Other notable attendees included policy officials as well as members of the Japanese Consulate in Boston.