{"id":20582,"date":"2021-09-07T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=20582"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:01:48","slug":"uk-china-relations-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2021\/09\/uk-china-relations-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Next on UK-China Relations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK&#8217;s Evolving Priorities, Geopolitical Developments, and China&#8217;s New Strategic Framework<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much has changed since the BFPG published \u2018After the Golden Age\u2019, our 2020 report on resetting UK-China relations \u2013 in Britain\u2019s domestic landscape, in geopolitical terms, and in China itself.<\/p>\n<p>Taking stock of these developments and what they reveal about the future in their substantial forthcoming report, authors <strong>Sophia Gaston<\/strong> and <strong>Rana Mitter<\/strong> cut through the noise and shine light on the most pressing areas demanding our attention. They argue that China\u2019s strategic framework is evolving in real time, and it is imperative that Britain understands how and where best to advance our interests and values.<\/p>\n<p>The report authors hosted a special <strong>in-person<\/strong> briefing session timed with the publication of the new report, which set out the key findings and recommendations of the report, and their predictions for the next phase of UK-China relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rana Mitter<\/strong> is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books, including China\u2019s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2013). His latest book is China\u2019s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). Rana\u00a0won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the Historical Association. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophia Gaston<\/strong> is the Director of the British Foreign Policy Group. She is a social and political researcher specialising in public opinion, whose research particularly explores threats to governance in advanced liberal democracies. Sophia has previously worked in a number of roles with touch-points with China, including in government in Australia on economic, international and diaspora engagement. Sophia is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Gaston and Rana Mitter deliver a special briefing session on their latest report &#8216;Resetting UK China Engagement: 2021 Update&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,173,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-event","category-upcoming-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}