Security Around the World | U.S.-China Competition and the Korean Peninsula
Join Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies for a discussion on U.S.-China strategic competition and the Korean Peninsula. U.S. concerns about China are now focused on its growth as a global strategic competitor and its potential for aggression toward Taiwan. In comparison, the Korean Peninsula is under-examined as a key venue for U.S.-China competition and potential confrontation. Meanwhile, the looming potential for North Korea to spark a new crisis could quickly bring both the shared and conflicting interests of Washington and Beijing to the forefront in Korea, in the context of an intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. Bonnie Glaser and Markus Garlauskas, two top experts with longtime interest in China-Korea issues, will share their insights on why and how the United States should expand its focus on Korea in the context of U.S.-China strategic competition.
This event is part of CSS’s spring series on Security Around the World and is open to the public, but registration via Zoom is required in order to attend. For requests for accommodations such as closed captioning due to a disability or medical condition, contact sspmediafellow@georgetown.edu no later than Friday, March 5. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill all accommodation requests.
About the Speakers
Markus Garlauskas
Markus V. Garlauskas is a non-resident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security of the Atlantic Council. He departed the US government in June 2020, after nearly two decades of service as an intelligence officer and strategist focused on Northeast Asia issues. From July 2014 to June 2020, he was appointed to the Senior National Intelligence Service to lead the US intelligence community’s strategic analysis on Korea issues as the National Intelligence Officer for North Korea. Mr. Garlauskas earned his M.A. from Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and is now an adjunct professor in the program, teaching the new graduate-level course “Strategic Assessment: North Korea.”
Bonnie Glaser
Bonnie S. Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Lead image: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on June 14, 2018. Courtesy of U.S. Department of State.