China’s Emergence as a Global Security Actor and Implications for the West

Discussion and Reception with

Mikko Huotari

Head of the Foreign Relations Program

Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin

on

“China’s Emergence as a Global Security Actor and Implications for the West”

Monday, February 12, 2018

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

220 East 42nd Street (Between Second and Third Avenues)

New York City

RSVP (acceptances only) to the American Council on Germany

at 212-826-3636 or events@acgusa.org.

Mikko Huotari heads the Mercator Institute for China Studies’ program on China’s foreign relations. His research focuses on China’s foreign policy, China-Europe relations, and regional order in Asia. He has published extensively on China’s global investment strategy and economic relations with Europe, as well as on geopolitical shifts related to China’s rise as a global security actor. Before joining MERICS, he taught International Political Economy and Chinese Foreign Policy at the University of Freiburg. He gained experience in policy-oriented China research at the German-Chinese Law Institute in Nanjing, the German Embassy in Beijing, and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin while studying International Politics and International Law in Freiburg, Nanjing, and Shanghai.