GMF Announces Stockholm China Forum
Contact: Will Bohlen, +1 202 745 6691, wbohlen@gmfus.org
Elizabeth Boswell Rega, +32 2 238 5270, eboswellrega@gmfus.org On December 7, 2006, GMF signed an agreement with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) to establish the Stockholm China Forum.
The Forum, which will run biannually, aims to establish a deep and systematic transatlantic dialogue about China and the impact of its rise on the transatlantic alliance. This new initiative will bring together policymakers, intellectuals, journalists, and businesspeople, drawing both on China experts and on the broader transatlantic policy community.
"Over the last several years, political and economic issues that involve China have moved into the handful of topics that dominate the transatlantic conversation," said Craig Kennedy, president of the German Marshall Fund. "The relationship between the United States and Europe is no longer just about bilateral relations, but also about how the U.S. and Europe together approach challenges around the world. China's rise as a global power has already become a major new factor affecting shared transatlantic interests from Eurasia to Africa."
The Stockholm China Forum forms part of a wider program of work on China and transatlantic relations that GMF has been establishing in recent months. In October 2006, GMF and the Bucerius Law School organized a joint conference, "The United States, Europe, and China: Toward a Global Strategic Triangle," in Washington, DC, with high-level participation from both sides of the Atlantic. Resulting from the conference, in the next few weeks, GMF will publish two economic policy and opinion papers by Gabor Steingart and Joseph Quinlan on "Transatlantic Responses to the Rise of China."
The program will benefit from the intellectual leadership of Robert Kagan, GMF transatlantic fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of Dangerous Nation and Of Paradise and Power, and will be coordinated by Andrew Small, who joined GMF's Brussels office after managing the China program at the Foreign Policy Centre and directing their activities in Beijing. The new program of work will be focused on transatlantic responses to China's rise, looking both at European and U.S. China policies, and at China's political, economic, and strategic impact on broader policy areas of common transatlantic interest.
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