On New Years Day 2025, the Quishi Journal featured an essay largely transposed from a speech Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered in February of 2024 to a considerable number of Chinese Communist Party leaders, including new central committee members and provincial leaders. Much of the speech was centered on leading China and the developing world into a bright economic and cultural future via "Socialism with Chinese characteristics.” China is in the process of developing its 15th five-year plan. What ends up in that plan will directly impact the direction of US National Security.

This webinar, held on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, explored where US-China security and economic relationships are headed in the new year, with a new Congress and a new administration.The webinar explored the following questions:

• What will be different about the next five-year plan and how does it affect US national Security interest?
• What will be the focus of Chinas goals given where China 2025 and the Belt and Road initiative stand?
• How might that direction relate to potential conflict or cooperation with respect to Taiwan in the near-term?
• In the long-term?How will XI approach China’s relationships with the rest of the world?

The Potomac Institute gathered experts to explore these ideas and discuss how they might affect a new US National Security Strategy and economic relationships with China.

Moderator: 

Mr. Curtis Pearson, Vice President, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Speakers:

Mr. Dean Cheng, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies 

Mr. J. Michael Dahm, Senior Resident Fellow for Aerospace & China Studies, Mitchell Institute 

Dr. Patrick Ennis, Venture Partner, Madrona Venture Group