On Tuesday, July 27, The Nixon Center hosted a luncheon discussion with Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg about the Obama administration’s Asia policy and his perspective of current trends in the U.S.-China relationship. Drew Thompson, Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center moderated a wide ranging discussion of the opportunities and challenges of the U.S. relationship with China. A summary of the event can be found here and you can watch the event here on our Youtube page.

On Tuesday, July 20, The Nixon Center hosted a luncheon discussion on "Israel: Strategic Asset or Liability?"  Ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr., Chairman of Projects International, and Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, presented their perspectives of Israel’s value to the United States as an ally and, conversely, the costs of close American identification with Israel. Gen. Charles G. Boyd (USAF, Ret.), The Nixon Center’s new Starr Distinguished National Security Fellow, moderated the event. 

You can read Ambassador Freeman's opening remarks here and Dr. Satloff's remarks here.
Foreign Policy's blog, The Cable, summarized the event here on their website.
Watch the event here on our YouTube page.

On Wednesday, July 14, The Nixon Center hosted a roundtable discussion of Mexico's recent elections. Experts George Grayson, Professor at the College of William and Mary, and Andrew Selee, Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center, discussed what the outcome means for democracy in Mexico as well as the ongoing war on drugs. Nixon Center Mexico Program Director Robert Leiken moderated. A summary of the event is available here, and a video of the discussion is available here on our YouTube page.