In-Person

The course will examine the complex relationship between the world's two largest economies and explore four possible outcomes: how China wins, how the US wins, how both lose, and how both win.

Thursday, May 29th @ 10:00 A.M.

Location: The Landing, Olsen Learning Ctr, Lower Level.

Joseph W. McDonnell serves as the President of the University of Maine at Farmington. Previously he served as professor of public policy and management at the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine (USM), and as a dean and provost at USM.

Dr. McDonnell has been a keen observer of China’s development over the last twenty years and has written and lectured on China. In 2013, he founded a Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine and served as its director for five years. More recently, he has developed a relationship between the University of Maine at Farmington and the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China.