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The economic battle between the two largest economies in the world didn't start with President Trump and won't end with him. How and why have U.S.-China relations sunk so low? And where are they headed? Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and Lingling Wei trace the route of the trade war from the early 1990s to the January 2020 signing of the phase one deal that signaled a temporary halt to economic hostilities in "Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War."


This free webinar will be co-hosted by AmCham China, AmCham Shanghai, AmCham South China, USCBC, and USITO on Friday, June 12 at 8:30 am Beijing time (or 8:30 pm US Eastern time). Please only RSVP to one of the associations.


Please RSVP by Thursday, June 11 at 2:00 pm. Note that webinar access details will be provided closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please email asarazen@amchamchina.org.


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Speakers

  • Bob Davis (Senior Editor at The Wall Street Journal)

    Bob Davis

    Senior Editor at The Wall Street Journal

    Bob Davis is a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, where he covers economic issues out of the Washington D.C. bureau. He also writes about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014

    In China he did his best to get out of Beijing and see China beyond the luxury stores and report on the changes that were remaking the country and global economy. Similarly, back in DC, he ranges beyond the Beltway to see how America is changing.

    Before he decamped to Beijing, Mr. Davis ran economic coverage during the global financial crisis and, before that, reported on Washington’s response to the Asian financial crisis. From 2004 to 2007, he was the Journal's Latin America bureau chief, based in Washington, D.C., and covered the resurgence of populist politics. Under his direction, the bureau won the Overseas Press Club award for Latin America coverage in 2005.

    He was the Wall Street Journal's Brussels bureau chief in 2001-2002 and was responsible for coverage of the European Union.

    In 2000, he was awarded the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting for coverage of the White House negotiations with China over the World Trade Organization. A year earlier, he was part of a team of Journal reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the Asian and Russian financial crisis.

    Davis is co-author of the upcoming book, "Superpower Showdown."

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  • Lingling Wei (Chief China Economics Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal)

    Lingling Wei

    Chief China Economics Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal

    Lingling Wei is an award-winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal. Based in Beijing, she leads a team of reporters who cover all aspects of China's economy and its macroeconomic policies. In the past few years, she has done a series of stories that provide a behind-the-scenes look at Beijing's policy-making process. Most recently, she and her Washington-based partner, Bob Davis, have been leading the coverage of the U.S.-China trade tensions. Lingling is featured in the Journal's "Face of Real News" campaign aimed at celebrating quality journalism. She was a finalist by the Society of Publishers in Asia for its 2017 Journalist of the Year award and was cited by the Overseas Press Club in New York in 2016 for best international business reporting. Before relocating to Beijing in 2011, she was a New York-based real estate reporter for the Journal. From 2001 to 2007, Lingling worked at Dow Jones Newswires and covered a variety of beats from bankruptcy, accounting to Wall Street brokerages. She was a finalist for the Loeb award for enterprise reporting in 2007 and a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award that year for her subprime-mortgage coverage. Lingling grew up in China and has a M.A. in business journalism from New York University.

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