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The MIT Starr Forum tackles the future of U.S.-China relations

MIT campus leading academics, policymakers, and authors will come together for a virtual discussion.

Students on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge in 2017. The Boston Globe

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As part of the MIT Starr Forum, a public event series sponsored by the Starr Foundation of New York, MIT campus leading academics, policymakers, and authors come together Feb. 24 for a virtual discussion around the future of U.S.-China relations as seen through the lens of international relations and U.S. foreign policy.

Moderated by Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan professor of political science and director of the MIT Security Studies Program, the evening’s esteemed panelists include Eric Heginbotham, a principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for International Studies, a specialist in Asian security issues, and former senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he led research projects on China, Japan, and regional security issues; Ketian Vivian Zhang, an assistant professor of international Security in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University; and Ali Wyne, a senior analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro practice, where he focuses on U.S.-China relations and great-power competition, and the author of “America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition.”

Participants are asked to register for the free event here.