AGENDA
Hearing on “An Emerging China-Russia Axis? Implications for the United States in an Era of Strategic Competition”
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
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9:30 AM – 9:35 AM: Opening Remarks: Chairman Bartholomew and Commissioner Kamphausen
9:35 AM – 11:05 AM: Panel I: Ties that Bind: Current Areas of Sino-Russian Cooperation
- Robert Sutter, Ph.D., Professor of Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (Testimony)
- Richard Weitz, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Director of Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute (Testimony)
- Erica Downs, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, CNA; Non-Resident Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University (Testimony)
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Panel II: Friction and Barriers: Limits to Sino-Russian Cooperation
- Jeanne Wilson, Ph.D., Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Chair of Political Science Department, Wheaton College (Testimony)
- Stephen Blank, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Russia, American Foreign Policy Council (Testimony)
- Pranay Vaddi, J.D., Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Testimony)
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM: Lunch Break
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM: Panel III: Challenging Futures: Risks and Opportunities in Central Asia and Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Arctic
- Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., Director of Central Asia Program and Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University (Testimony)
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Director of Transatlantic Security Program, Center for a New American Security (Testimony)
- Rebecca Pincus, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Strategic and Operational Research Department, U.S. Naval War College (Testimony)
3:15 PM – 3:20 PM: Closing Remarks
3:20 PM: Adjourn
Additional Testimony: Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
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