Recently, the United States held a democracy summit, followed by a special US-ASEAN summit. Beginning on May 20, 2022, U.S. President Biden will visit South Korea and Japan, and he will also hold the U.S.-Japan-India-Australia quadruple meeting to officially launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) proposed by the U.S. in October last year. All of these meetings are aimed at China. Liu Zhibiao, Dean of the Yangtze River Industrial Economics Research Institute of Nanjing University, organized a roundtable meeting for relevant scholars to discuss the following three issues.
Question 1: What is the essence of the US Indo-Pacific Economic Framework?
Question 2: What impact does the US Indo-Pacific Economic Framework have on China's economy?
Question 3: How should China respond to the US Indo-Pacific Economic Framework?
The following is a transcript of the speeches from the roundtable.