My guest today is DA Wei, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University. We discuss Wei’s time at CICIR and Tsinghua, his recent visits to the US and Russia, Taiwan and the South China Sea, and the potential positives of partial decoupling, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:49 What is CICIR
• 00:04:13 Tsinghua’s Center for International Security and Strategy
• 00:09:03 Impressions from recent trip to US
• 00:11:16 Potential consequences of Harris or Trump presidencies for China
• 00:14:26 Is chaos in the US good for China?
• 00:15:49 Sources of US-China competition
• 00:21:29 Impressions from recent trip to Russia
• 00:26:15 Comparison of US-China and US-Russia relations
• 00:30:35 Consequences of COVID
• 00:33:06 Potential positives of decoupling
• 00:40:0 Taiwan and South China Sea

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.