Panel Discussion: 'A new G2? How China-US relations on trade, tech and Taiwan will shape the future'

Forthcoming Event

Date
 26 November 2026, 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Registration Required

Location
 Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

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This event explores one of the greatest challenges for the next decade: the complex relationship between the US and China. They are simultaneously fierce competitors but also closely entwined with each other.

What will this mean for cutting edge technologies, from AI to biotech, for the capacity of the world trade system to renew itself, and for the dangerous geopolitics that threaten to destabilise the Pacific region, the world’s most economically dynamic region? Professor Rana Mitter, Dr Gillian Tett and Professor Yeling Tan will explore these issues in the context of the multiple meetings between US and Chinese leaders this year, and look at the continuing evolution of the relationship between the two countries.
 

Panel:
Professor Rana Mitter, OBE, Professor of Modern History and Politics of China at The Harvard Kennedy School
Dr Gillian Tett, Provost, King's College, Cambridge
Professor Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government
Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Chair), Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance

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Professor Rana Mitter, OBE
Professor of Modern History and Politics of China at The Harvard Kennedy School

Professor Rana Mitter works on the emergence of nationalism in modern China, both in the early twentieth century and in the present era. China has always drawn on its past to draw lessons for the contemporary political scene; he believes that to help us understand the new China, we must look at its past.

He is the former Director of the University China Centre and is also the author of several books, including Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (2008, new ed. 2016), and the award-winning A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (2004). China’s War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival (US title: Forgotten Ally) was named as a 2013 Book of the Year in the Financial Times and the Economist, was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature. He recently published China’s Good War: How World War II is Creating a New Nationalism (2020), and won the 2020 Medlicott Medal from the Historical Association for Service to History.  

Rana presents and and contributes regularly to programmes on television and radio, commenting on contemporary Chinese politics and society. He is a regular presenter for BBC Radio in the UK. His television documentary “The Longest War: China’s World War II” was broadcast on the History Channel Asia in summer 2015, and his reviews and essays have appeared in newspapers including the Financial Times, International New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Caijing, and Outlook (India).
 

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Dr Gillian Tett
Provost, King's College, Cambridge

Dr Gillian Tett became the 45th Provost of King's College, Cambridge in October 2023. Dr Tett studied anthropology at Clare College and received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University Cambridge in 1996. She became a journalist, US managing editor and columnist in a career spanning 30 years at the Financial Times. She remains a member of the FT Editorial Board. Her coverage of the 2008 financial crisis was critically acclaimed. She is the author of Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (2009), among other works. 

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Professor Yeling Tan
Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government

Yeling Tan is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Her research focuses on the political economy of globalisation and policymaking, with a focus on China and the Asian region. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Research on Economic Security and Peace initiative, a collaboration between scholars and Oxford and Harvard University, funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.

Yeling holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Oxford, Professor Tan was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. She has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development, international security policy, global governance and governance innovations.

She is author of Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press Studies in Political Economy), which has been awarded the Peter Katzenstein book prize and the Georgetown Joseph S. Lepgold book prize. Her articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Review of International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, the China Journal, Governance, and Global Policy. Professor Tan’s earlier books include China Experiments: from Local Innovations to National Reform (Brookings Institution Press) and Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge). Yeling has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, and Bloomberg Opinion.

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Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Chair)
Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Full Professor of Political Science at CERI Sciences Po, Paris. He is co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He was awarded a Leverhulme Trust/British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for 2023-24. Soares de Oliveira has conducted extensive fieldwork on the international political economy of African states with a focus on the extractive industries, post-conflict reconstruction, offshore finance, and China-Africa relations.

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