A Conversation with Dennis Wilder on the Outlook of US-China Relations in 2024 [Virtual]

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The meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC summit last November has created a window of opportunity to stabilize the tense bilateral relationship. Both countries agree to enhance cooperation in several areas, including AI governance, military-military exchanges and countering illicit drug trafficking. Yet, fierce competition between the world's two largest economies remains.

How will the US Presidential election affect the bilateral relationship? As the US seeks to "de-risk" from China, how can multinationals manage their business operation? To kick off the annual China Conference which will be revived on April 8, we have invited veteran China scholar, Dr Dennis Wilder, who served as National Security Council's special assistant to President George W Bush, for a virtual session to assess the outlook of the US-China relationship in 2024.

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Dennis Wilder

Senior Fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown

Eden Woon (Moderator)

President at AmCham Hong Kong

Dennis Wilder is a senior fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, where he previously served as the managing director. Wilder holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.

His accomplishments include:

Served as National Security Council's (NSC) director for China (2004-2005) and then as the NSC special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asian affairs from 2005 to 2009, which included a series of presidential trips to Asia, notably the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Served from 2009 to 2015 as senior editor of the President’s Daily Brief, the worldwide intelligence update produced under auspices of the director of national intelligence.
Served from 2015 to 2016 as the CIA’s deputy assistant director for East Asia and the Pacific.
Spent the 1975-1976 academic year at New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong studying Mandarin Chinese under the auspices of Yale-in-China.
Author of "We Need More Luddens" and "Managed Competition: Finding Answers in U.S.-China Diplomatic History."

Contributing author of Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama, which details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda.

Dr. Eden Woon is the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, effective from September 1, 2022.

Dr. Woon is an experienced business and academic leader who has also served many years in government and NGOs, and is no stranger to the business community in the Greater China region and beyond, having spent his career in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Thailand, and USA.

Prior to joining AmCham HK, from 2018 to 2022, Dr. Woon was the President of Asian Institute of Technology, an international graduate engineering institute in Bangkok which focuses on sustainability. In 2017-2018, he was the Vice Chairman of Alba Group Asia, an environmental engineering company headquartered in Berlin. From 2010 until November 2017, Dr. Woon was
the Vice-President for Institutional Advancement of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Woon was based in Shanghai, being the Managing Director of Li & Fung Group's China Corporate Office and Managing Director of Toys ”R” Us China. He has also been a Vice-President of Starbucks Coffee Company in China. In 1997-2006, Dr. Woon was the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Woon was the Executive Director of the Seattle-based Washington State China Relations Council from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Woon served in the US Air Force until 1993 when he retired as a Colonel. He once acted as China policy advisor to the US Secretary of Defense and had a stint in Beijing. He also taught Mathematics at the US Air Force Academy for six years, reaching the title of Associate Professor.

Dr. Woon spent his childhood in Hong Kong and received his BA degree from the University of Iowa and his MA, MS, and PhD degrees, all in Mathematics, from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also a graduate of the National War College in Washington, DC.

A U.S. citizen and fluent speaker of both Mandarin and Cantonese, Dr. Woon serves as Special Advisor to the Shaw Foundation of Hong Kong, as a Board member of the Hong Kong Ballet, and he is a Justice of Peace of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

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