On February 1, 2018, Professor Wang Jianwei from the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau visited the SIAS and gave a lecture on the Trump administration’s first National Security Strategy (NSS).

According to Professor Wang, the release of the first NSS within the inaugural year indicated that the Trump team had almost completed its policy review of national security. With this report, the Trump administration hoped to send a message that its policy agenda had a degree of certainty. He noted that this NSS saw great power competition as a major threat to the US, which may signal a significant change in US strategy toward China. Opportunities for future China-US cooperation may be undermined, which would present serious challenges to bilateral ties. He also shared his views with the SIAS research staff on factors influencing US strategy toward China and the prospects of China-US relations, among other hot-spot international issues.

Professor Wang’s teaching and research focus on China-US relations, East Asian politics and security, etc. Previously, he was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Steven Point. He has also served as a research fellow and visiting scholar at the Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, the Atlantic Council of the US, the East-West Center (Hawaii), and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva.