Thursday, October 17, 2019
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Elliott School of International Affairs
Lindner Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, D.C., 20052
This event is a book launch for Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System. In this book, author Paul Blustein chronicles the contentious process resulting in China’s WTO membership and the transformative changes that followed, both good and bad — for China, its trading partners and the global trading system as a whole.
Speakers include:
Paul Blustein, CIGI Senior Fellow and former reporter at the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
Steve Suranovic, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at GWU
Scott Kennedy, Senior Advisor and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at CSIS
Moderator: Susan Aaronson, CIGI Senior Fellow and Research Professor and the Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at GWU.
This event is co-sponsored by the the Institute for International Economic Policy, in partnership with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at GWU.
