Anxious America and the China Consensus
In-person, Members-only
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM ET
As the United States and China settle into an era of long-term competition, the challenge for Washington is not only strategic but psychological. China’s rise has stirred deep unease among American policymakers and the public alike, fueling a determination to “outcompete” Beijing. Yet, the instinct can obscure a fundamental reality: the two countries will share the world stage for decades to come. Despite a growing consensus around competing with China, key questions remain: What does the United States actually seek to achieve? How can the United States advance its interests without allowing competition to spiral into confrontation? And what would a sustainable framework for long-term coexistence look like?
Join us on Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM for an in-person conversation with Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Advisor for U.S.–China Relations at the International Crisis Group and author of America’s Great-Power Opportunity. Drawing on his experience at leading policy institutions, Wyne will explore how the United States can approach a resurgent China with steadiness and perspective. He will discuss what it means to compete with composure and how to adapt in a world where power is increasingly shared.
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SPEAKER:
Ali Wyne
Ali Wyne is the senior research and advocacy advisor for U.S.-China relations at the International Crisis Group. He previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2008-09), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2009-12), the State Department (2013), the RAND Corporation (2017-20), and Eurasia Group (2020-23). He has also been a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Counci’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Kennedy School, Ali is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project, a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former David Rockefeller fellow with the Trilateral Commission. He is the author of America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition (Polity, 2022) and a coauthor of Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (MIT Press, 2013).
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