Roundtable on US-China relations with Robert D. Lee
On June 14 the Australia-China Relations Institute hosted a roundtable on the US-China bilateral relationship with US Embassy Canberra Political Counselor Robert D. Lee.
Participants
- Alan Bloomfield, VC’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales
- James Curran, Professor, Department of History, University of Sydney
- Philipp Ivanov, CEO, Asia Society Australia
- Jeffrey Riegel, Emeritus Professor & Director, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
- Tom Switzer, senior fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney; host of ABC Radio National’s Between the Lines
Speaker
Robert D. Lee
Robert Lee has served as the Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Canberra since August, 2013 and has been responsible for promoting close cooperation on a full range of foreign policy and political-military issues with Australia. Prior to this assignment, he served from 2010 to 2013 as the chief of the Political-Economic Section at U.S. Consulate General, Guangzhou and oversaw reporting on political and economic developments in south China and advanced cooperation between the U.S. and China’s four southern provinces, an area with a US$1 trillion economy and a population of over 200 million. Prior to Guangzhou, Rob worked as a political-military officer at U.S. Embassy, Ankara from 2007 to 2010. Rob served at the U.S. Department of State from 2003 to 2006, first as a watch officer at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and then as the NATO Desk Officer from 2004-2006, where he was responsible for preparations related to the enlargement of NATO. Other overseas assignments included Shanghai, China, and Athens, Greece. His next assignment will be as the Director of Regional Security Policy in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the State Department.
