Professor Bates Gill has seen up-close how a global perspective can transform the world for the better. Primarily focusing on China and Asian affairs, his 30-year international career as a scholar, policy advisor, and institution-builder has taken him across six continents and to some 60 countries and counting. Along the way, he has led a global top-ten think tank and held research positions at world-leading universities.

Bates and James chat about how, in the midst of unprecedented global tensions, China’s relationship with the West might play out on the world stage.