Priorities for the new UK Government: Managing US & China relations

A new government has been in power in Westminster since July. In our Policy & Practice miniseries, Priorities for the new UK Government, we explore key issues on which the Government is—or ought to be—focusing its attention.

In this event, co-organised with UCL Institute of the Americas, we will discuss the new Government’s foreign policy, with a particular focus on its relationship with China, and its ‘special relationship’ with the United States. How will the policies of the US President-elect affect international politics and security? How will China respond? And how should the new UK Government manage its relationships with each?

Professor Steve Tsang is the Director of the SOAS China Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. His expertise covers politics and governance in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Chinese and Taiwanese foreign policy. His current research project is on China’s Global Strategy under Xi Jinping. He is a frequent commentator for the BBC and in other media. His most recent book, coauthored with Olivia Cheung, is The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (OUP, 2024).

Professor Wyn Rees is Professor of International Security in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on three areas of security politics: contemporary European security and transatlantic relations; postwar British security policy; and international terrorism. He previously taught at the University of Leicester, the College of Europe in Bruges, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore is the creator and editor of Drum Tower, The Economist’s weekly podcast on China, and an award-winning writer and journalist. She writes about subjects ranging from the impact of macro-economic change on the sense of touch in Beijing, to the BBC Newsnight cover up of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Her work has won a Pushcart prize and been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Journalism. She has made podcasts for Tortoise media and worked at the BBC.

Chair: Dr. Sophie Joscelyne is Lecturer in the History of the United States and the World, UCL Institute of the Americas.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

UCL Institute of Archaeology, lecture theatre G6, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom