Dr. Bates Gill discusses Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy and Its Implications for the United States.
Since July 2002, Dr. Bates Gill has held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He previously served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, Monterey, California and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and formerly held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.
Bio
Dr. Bates Gill
Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Bates Gill was appointed to hold the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies in 2002. Prior to that, he served as senior fellow in foreign policy studies and inaugural director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Earlier, he held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, his research focuses primarily on Northeast Asian political, security, and socioeconomic issues, especially with regard to China and U.S.-China relations. Recently, he coauthored China: The Balance Sheet, with Fred Bergsten, Nicholas Lardy, and Derek Mitchell.