Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University), Aditi Kumar (Harvard Kennedy School)

Join the Belfer Center's Economic Diplomacy Initiative for a conversation with Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, on the evolution of U.S.-China digital and technological competition. The year 2019 saw the curtain rise on a U.S.–China bipolar rivalry quite different from the Cold War's U.S.–Soviet Union bipolarity. The fundamental difference between the current bipolar rivalry and that during the Cold War is that ideology is no longer the main engine driving international competition, but rather a new digital dimension of strategic competition is emerging between the United States and China. The event will be moderated by Aditi Kumar, the Executive Director of the Belfer Center.