In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. will face a new chapter under its latest administration, leaving the future of U.S.-China relations uncertain. The China Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein APARC presents a pivotal panel that convenes leading experts to analyze the implications of the U.S. election results on the evolving relationship between these two global superpowers.

Moderated by Professor Jean Oi, director of the China Program at Shorenstein APARC, this session features Shorenstein APARC Fellow Dr. Tom Fingar, Professor Yu Tiejun, international relations scholar from Peking University, and China Program Visiting Scholar Mathew Dolbow. Together, they will offer insights into the geopolitical shifts expected to unfold in 2025 and explore critical topics such as trade, security, and strategic diplomacy between the U.S. and China.

Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. A Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, she directs the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and is the Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. She also is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies.

Matthew Dolbow is the U.S. State Department's Senior Diplomatic Fellow at Stanford. Before coming to Stanford, Matthew led U.S. diplomatic engagement in Japan’s southern island archipelago as Consul General of U.S. Consulate General Naha. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor in the National Security Council, Counselor for Economic and Social Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, head of economic strategy at U.S. Embassy Beijing, Spokesman for U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong, and at diplomatic postings in Seoul, Taipei, and Washington, DC. Matthew is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he studied diplomacy and leadership, and he completed undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago focused with a concentration in cultural anthropology.

Yu Tiejun is APARC's China Policy Fellow for the 2024 fall quarter. He currently serves as President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS), all at Peking University (PKU). Previously, he studied at the University of Tokyo in 1998-2000. He served as visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University in 2005, and also as visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in 2005-06.

Thomas Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow from 2010 through 2015 and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 2009. From 2005 through 2008, he served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.