Join us Wednesday, April 23 at 8 AM PT for a webinar examining the complex and evolving economic relationship between the United States and China. As two of the world’s largest economies, their trade dynamics, tariff policies, and financial strategies have far-reaching implications for global markets. Members will hear from Geoffrey Garrett, Dean of USC’s Marshall School of Business, and Rob Lovelace, Chair of Capital International, Inc.

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT:

• Since January, the government has raised tariffs on Chinese products multiple times—the average U.S. tariff on impacted goods is 39%. This has resulted in retaliatory tariffs from China on U.S. agricultural products, including chicken, wheat, and corn.
• China blocked several U.S. companies from purchasing Chinese products including companies that provide supplies, such as drones, to the U.S. military.  
• Tariffs are economic tools meant to support national industry, however, China’s alleged inability to curb imports of fentanyl and increasing Chinese migration to the U.S. are additional motivators for Trump’s tariff policies. 

This event will be recorded/on-the-record. Please feel free to send in questions in advance to events@pacificcouncil.org.

To register for this webinar, visit the Zoom registration page. 

Guest Speaker

Geoffrey Garrett holds the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration and is also Professor of Management and Organization. Since his arrival at Marshall in 2020 after six years as dean of the Wharton School, Garrett has been at the forefront of redefining business education and has led transformational investments in new supply chain and risk management institutes as well as initiatives in digital assets, digital competition, and the ethics of technology.

Under his leadership, Marshall has launched new interdisciplinary joint undergraduate degrees with other USC schools, STEM-certified all undergraduate programs, and grown Marshall's graduate business analytics and finance programs. During his first years as dean, the undergraduate business program reached gender parity for its incoming classes and Marshall launched a faculty hiring initiative focused on analytics, finance, and leadership while increasing diversity amongst faculty.

Garrett previously taught at USC from 2005-2008 as a professor of international relations, business administration, communications, and law while also serving as President of the Pacific Council on International Policy. In his native Australia, Garrett was the founding CEO of the United States Studies Centre and dean of the business schools at both The University of Sydney (USYD) and The University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW). A distinguished international political economist, Garrett has also held academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford, and Yale universities and is a member of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. 

Garrett is widely recognized as a leading global business expert and has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The Economist. He has authored books on globalization, politics, and the global diffusion of democracy and markets.

He also serves on the board of directors for Park Hotels and Resorts, the Governing Council of the BITS School of Management in India, and the International Advisory Board of Zhejiang University International Business School (ZIBS) in China. He is a winner of the Foreign Police Association Medal and the Advance Global Australian Award.

Garrett holds a BA (Honors) from the Australian National University, and an MA and PhD from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Guest Speaker

Rob Lovelace currently serves as Co-Chair of the Pacific Council on International Policy's Board of Directors. He is a portfolio manager for the American Funds and President of the New Perspective Fund. He is also Chair of Capital International, Inc, a division of Capital Group. Rob joined Capital in 1985 after receiving a bachelor’s degree in mineral economics from Princeton University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. He is chair and a trustee of the J. Paul Getty Trust and a founder of Vistamar School, a private independent high school in the South Bay region of Los Angeles.

Moderator

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging markets, energy and climate change policy, and East Asia-Middle East relations. Dr. Liu’s regional expertise is in East Asia, specifically China and Japan, and the Middle East, specifically Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Dr. Liu is the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press).

Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Liu was an instructional assistant professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC, where she taught courses on global economy, economic statecraft, and Chinese foreign policy. She joined the Bush School after post-doctoral fellowships at the Columbia-Harvard “China and the World Program” and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Dr. Liu was a research fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies and a research associate at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. She was also a visiting research fellow at the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo, Bank of Mitsubishi-UFJ, and the Delma Institute in Abu Dhabi. She taught courses on Asian energy security and political risk analysis at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Liu received her PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and her MA in international relations from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Studies. She received her BA in history from Shandong Normal University in Jinan, China. Dr. Liu is also a CFA charterholder.

To register for this webinar, visit the Zoom registration page.