Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar about the U.S.-China technology competition with Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Dartmouth College. Professor Chris Miller will moderate the conversation.

In recent years, the U.S. government has sought to prevent China from accessing essential semiconductors to slow its military rise. The Biden administration describes this effort as a highly targeted effort—a “small yard, high fence”— and is optimistic about its chances of success. Comparing today’s export controls to the Cold War-era trade restrictions imposed by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), Lind argues that denying advanced technologies to a great-power competitor was hard then—and will be more difficult now. We encourage you to read the following articles by Lind and other scholars about the U.S.-China competition dynamics in semiconductors and telecommunications, as well as the effectiveness of U.S. export controls in advance.

The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Please register via myFletcher to attend the event in person or let us know if you would like to attend virtually. If you would like to submit discussion questions for the speaker in advance, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Lunch will be served following the conversation. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Jennifer Lind is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Research Associate in the U.S. and the Americas Programme at Chatham House. Lind’s research focuses on the international relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. Lind is the author of the forthcoming book, Half-Vicious: Smart Authoritarianism and the Rise of China (2025), which shows how authoritarian adaptation enabled China’s rise to become a superpower and technological peer competitor of the United States. Previously, Lind published Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (2008). She has authored numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Security and International Studies Quarterly and writes for wider audiences in Foreign Affairs. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of a Substack newsletter on U.S. foreign policy called Blue Blaze. Her commentary is regularly quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio (NPR). Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.I.A. from the School of Global Policy Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.