Benjamin Gedan’s Post

🎙 How Should the new EU Commission engage with China? In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Yuyun Zhan sits down with Alicia Garcia-Herrero 艾西亞 and Abigaël VASSELIER (Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) gGmbH) to assess the new reality of EU-China relations and explain why the European Union must prepare for a much more difficult relationship with China. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eqh273BU

📈 Why is the US growing faster than Europe? And must Europe change course? 🌐 In a global economic landscape marked by uncertainty, can Europe realign its strategies to match the rapid growth of the US? 📅 Join us this April at the Delphi Economic Forum, in collaboration with the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), to explore the future of transatlantic economic dynamics.

While the last decade has seen a renewal of interest in the age-old practice of using economic means to pursue foreign policy goals, there is no consensus on the kind of economic statecraft the United States should now be practicing. Writing in the Fall 2023 edition of The International Economy, Robert D. Atkinson argues that with the increasing centrality of the techno-economic challenge from China, it’s time to move from an Economic Statecraft 1.0 premised on using U.S. strength to support friends and punish adversaries, to an Economic Statecraft 2.0 premised on husbanding U.S. strength while limiting the relative techno-economic advance of China. https://lnkd.in/enQbAVhb

I highly recommend this update from the Center for China Globalization regarding the result of the third plenum. The speech of Mr. Huang Yiping of Beijing University gives a great overview of the actual economic issues and the government's approach to solving them. It's also heartening to see that respected academics are still able to give independent and even critical comment on public policy. https://lnkd.in/d9XQcs_b

In order to match China as a partner in the Indo-Pacific, the United States must understand the interdependence between economics and security in the region..

"The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in-person or online on March 25 at noon for a talk by Dr. Enze Han, Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at The University of Hong Kong. This talk will look at the impact of unintentional Chinese influence in Southeast Asia and deepen our understanding of which Chinese actors are important to China's relations. Register below!

Must watch Live Tue Dec 10 3p ET Implications of a new US foreign economic policy: A conversation with Lawrence Summers and Robert Zoellick Peterson Institute for International Economics

Read our most recent interview with Toby Carroll, discussing his research on the Political Economy of the Asia Pacific, the concept of 'Deep Marketisation' and the political effects of late capitalism. Read here on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gsZ-2kua

Here is a link to my latest substack piece looking at how the combination of US domestic politics and the sheer weight of China in global goods markets means that the US may have at least one hand tied in its efforts at geoeconomics. https://lnkd.in/g9-XcGva

Dive into the fascinating story of migration with Professor Ian Goldin at the Oxford launch of "The Shortest History of Migration". Explore how migration has shaped our past, present, and future.   📆 29 May | In-person & online | Register now ⬇️