Commission Hearing on ‘An Axis of Autocracy? China’s Relations With Russia, Iran, and North Korea’

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission holds a hearing on “An Axis of Autocracy? China’s Relations With Russia, Iran, and North Korea” at 9 a.m. ET on Feb. 20.

SCHEDULE:

Hearing co-chairs: Commissioner Jonathan Stivers and Commissioner Aaron Friedberg

9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.: Co-chairs’ opening remarks

9:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.: Panel I: Is There an Axis of Autocracies?

Andrea Kendall-Taylor: senior fellow and director of Transatlantic Security Program, Center for New American Security
Christopher Walker: vice president for studies and analysis, National Endowment for Democracy
Christopher Chivvis: senior fellow and director of American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.: Break

10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.: Panel II: Economic Linkages and Sanctions Evasion

Kimberly Donovan: director of Economic Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council
Elina Ribakova: nonresident senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Anthony Ruggiero: adjunct senior fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

12:20 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.: Lunch Break

1:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.: Panel III: Military and Security Cooperation

Elizabeth Wishnick: senior research scientist, Center for Naval Analyses
Jemima Baar: independent researcher
Jake Rinaldi, defense analyst, U.S. Army War College
Sheena Chestnut Greitens: associate professor, University of Texas Austin

3:20 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.: Closing remarks

3:25 p.m.: Adjourn