UofSC Folks Center online forum with Bush China Foundation’s David J. Firestein

Firestein will assess the current challenges and future prospects in U.S.-China relations, with an emphasis on trade frictions, and both public and corporate perspectives in a changing landscape. The forum is presented in partnership with the UofSC School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Prior to joining the Bush China Foundation, Firestein was the founding executive director of The University of Texas at Austin’s China Public Policy Center and a clinical professor at UT’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Firestein led innovative interdisciplinary research and engagement on China-related domestic and foreign policy. Before moving to UT, he served as senior vice president and Perot Fellow at the  EastWest Institute, where he led the Institute’s track 2 diplomacy work in the areas of U.S.-China relations, East Asian security and U.S.-Russia relations. Firestein was a decorated career U.S. diplomat from 1992–2010, specializing primarily in U.S.-China relations.