Stephen Roach
On China.
An impressive resume!
Stephen Roach is a Senior Research Scholar of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. He joined the Yale faculty in 2010 after 30 years at Morgan Stanley, mainly as the firm’s chief economist heading up a highly regarded global team followed by several years as the Hong Kong-based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
He was the first senior fellow to join the faculty of Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at its inception in 2010 and remained in that capacity until 2022; over that period, he was also a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. A passionate teacher, he has drawn on his rich experience and developed popular new courses on Asia — notably “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan.” His prolific writings include the new book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (2022), and Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China (2014). His work has also appeared in academic journals, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. His commentary is published regularly on Project Syndicate’s global, multi-lingual platform. He joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022. (Source: law.yale.edu)
The U.S.-China summit wrapped up on Friday of last week. I spoke with Mr. Roach the day before, when the news reports were in the “written statements” phase. So this podcast is not a “post-game” analysis of the summit. It’s a more general discussion about the state of U.S.-China relations, as seen by someone who is widely (and correctly) viewed as one of the world’s leading experts on the subject.
(News Items Podcast with Stephen Roach. Recorded 14 May 2026. Produced by Dale Eisinger.)
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