China

After the Trade War, a Real War with China?
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) | Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
St. Petersburg, Florida

 

I’m here at your kind invitation to discuss China, how bad our relations with it may get, and how the contest we’ve initiated with China is likely to play out.  Let me take a minute or two to set the context for this discussion.

Thinking about War with China
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) | Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Washington, D.C.

Let’s not kid ourselves.  The armed forces of the United States and China are now very far along in planning and practicing how to go to war with each other.  Neither has any idea when or why it might have to engage the other on the battlefield but both agree on the list of contingencies that cou

Reimagining China and Asia
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) | Senior Fellow, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

This is the second of three lectures on the changing international political, economic, and military environment after the Pax Americana.  The first considered changes in the pattern of relations between great and middle-ranking powers.  The third will address the changes underway in the