The US-China relationship in the Year of the Rabbit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to make a short, in-person trip to the PRC in early February – the highest-ranking US government officer to visit Beijing since the start of the global Covid pandemic. Blinken will be building on a slight rapprochman brokered on the sidelines of the G20 meeting last November — but are the prospects of a continued thawing in the bilateral relationship based on hope rather than substantive change? How might China and the US be planning for Blinken’s visit?
About the speaker: William Klein is a Consulting Partner in the Berlin office of FGS Global’s Government Affairs, Policy & Advocacy Division. Prior to joining the firm, he spent a total of over 20 years in the diplomatic service of the United States, including serving as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Counsellor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, head of the Political Section of the American Institute in Taiwan, and Acting and Deputy Director of the China Desk at the U.S. State Department. Bill studied Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin and History and Mass Communication at the University of Utah. He is also a non-resident senior associate at the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.