Episode 57: U.S. and European Responses to Economic and Strategic Challenges from China

On this episode of The Zeitgeist, Daniel Gros, Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), joins AICGS President Jeff Rathke and Peter Rashish, Director of AICGS Geoeconomics Program. They discuss economic and strategic challenges that have arisen from an authoritarian and increasingly assertive China and responses from Europe and the United States. How do Europeans and Americans perceive China’s efforts to reshape the international economic order and influence global governance? Has Europe’s reckoning with its reliance on Russian energy imports following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted a similar revaluation of its relationship with China? Will the Ukraine crisis lead to initiatives in Germany to curtail the country’s reliance on close economic ties with China? What are the most promising areas for transatlantic cooperation, especially under the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council? Should the United States and the EU step up their efforts to reform the WTO? Host Jeff Rathke, President, AICGS Guest Daniel Gros, Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Peter Rashish, AICGS Senior Fellow; Director, Geoeconomics Program