Future-oriented China-U.S. relations and cooperation

Stephen D. Mull, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia. Ambassador Mull has served in a broad range of U.S. national security positions, most recently as Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, working as the day-to-day manager of overall regional and bilateral policy issues, and overseeing the bureaus for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Near East, South and Central Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and International Organizations. He was lead coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation from August 2015 until August 2017 and was the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Lithuania. He is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Xu Xueyuan has been minister at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America since 2018. She is responsible for subnational affairs, congressional affairs, and overseas Chinese relations. She was deputy director-general at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing from 2015 to 2018. She has previously served as a counselor for political affairs at the Embassy in Washington, DC, from 2011 to 2015. From 1996 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2010, she worked in the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was also posted to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from 1998 to 2001. Xu is from Zhejiang province and graduated from Fudan University.

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings's president and vice presidents. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global (2013) and co-author (with Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (2010). He has published articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade.