Policy Exchange was delighted to welcome Matthew Pottinger, Deputy National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, for the first of two Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lectures this year. He delivered his lecture, titled “The Importance of Being Candid: On China’s Relationship with the Rest of the World”, in Mandarin, speaking of a “new consensus” in the US, which bridges political divides and unites the whole of society, on the threat posed China’s “technologically enhanced totalitarianism”. Watch the speech here.

On Wednesday, October 28, Policy Exchange hosted Dr Kurt Campbell, former United States Assistant Secretary of State, and architect during the Obama administration of the “pivot” to Asia, for the second Colin Cramphorn memorial Lecture in 2020 on “The Future of the Indo Pacific”. Watch the speech here.