Dr. C. Fred Bergsten
Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, Nonresident Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former Economic Deputy to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council, highlights his recent book “The United States vs. China.” Dr. Bergsten focuses on a wide range of topics, such how the US and China can avoid an economic/military Cold War; potential damage to the liberal international economic order; a failed America First unilateral approach to economic sanctions; US-China military budgets; ineffectiveness of the Containment Strategy of China by the US; role of the following flashpoints such as South China Sea, Hong Kong, Spratley Islands and the Uighur persecution; and the importance of decoupling economic issues from others such as climate change and unwinding the economic trade war.
