The dangerous U.S.-China competition for Asia-Pacific hegemony continues apace. The U.S. National Security Strategy is clear that the post Cold War era is over, and that the competition among the great powers to shape what follows is on. Flashpoint military confrontations in the South and East China Seas and over Taiwan, and the U.S.-Chinse arms races threaten regional, even nuclear, war. And, despite the two great powers economic interdependence, the escalating trade war threatens people’s livelihoods and their economic security.

Of equal importance, there is no hope of halting and reversing the existential dangers of the climate emergency without U.S.-Chinese cooperation.

This will NOT be a webinar for China scholars and old China hands. It will be an introduction for concerned people who have been hesitant to make the dive into understanding the history, tensions, and alternatives to the world’s most important and potentially dangerous strategic relationship.

Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Convener of Peace & Planet International Network, and co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy. He works closely with peace organizations and advocates across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World and With Hiroshima Eyes.

About NHPA’s bi-weekly Zoom Peace & Justice Conversation Series: 2020’s upheavals brought us to a new moment of reckoning and possibility. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to bring you into these conversations about issues and options for the future.  There is no charge to attend, but your contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated.