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Another initiative from our affiliated Association: the Treasury Markets Association (Hong Kong). 

Why is US President Donald J Trump so fixated upon tariffs? How can Trump’s antics and behaviours be predicted – to the extent that that is possible? How will, and how should, mainland China and Hong Kong respond to Trump? 

This webinar will feature a geopolitically and empirical political science-based dissection of Trump’s China and macroeconomic policies, as well as a robust forecast and discussion of a variety of implications of his policies for China (including Hong Kong). It will also shed light on the fact that the world is much larger than just China and the US – and that genuine diversification and supply chain de-risking (for both investors and entrepreneurs) require an intimate and substantive level of understanding of local and regional idiosyncrasies.

Content:

What are Donald J Trump’s priorities?

How can we systematically make sense of Trump’s policymaking process?

What is the prognosis for Sino-US relations?

How can Hong Kong thrive in the era of Trump 2.0?

Speaker:
Dr. Brian Wong
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Hong Kong

Dr. Brian Wong is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology.

A Rhodes Scholar (2020) and Kwok Scholar, Brian holds a DPhil in Politics from Balliol College; MPhil in Political Theory (Distinction) from Wolfson College, and an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Double First Class, 9th out of 240) from Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Brian has taught modules in politics to undergraduate students at Oxford and Stanford Universities, and spoken at conferences at Harvard-Sciences Po, LSE, Carnegie-Tsinghua, Stanford, Tufts, and briefs MNCs, hedge funds, and family offices and investors on macro risks in Asia. 

Brian co-founded and now advises Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap. As a columnist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Editor-at-Large for ThriveGlobal, he contributes regularly to publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, SCMP, Nikkei, Japan Times, the US-Asia Law Institute, E-IR, Institute of Art and Ideas, USCN Perception Monitor, Neican, and The Hindu, having also presented and written on issues of public philosophy for the Journal of Practical Ethics, the American Philosophical Association, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Brian's comments have been featured on The Atlantic, Nikkei, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and POLITICO.

Event Details:

• Date & Time: Monday, 7 July 2025 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (Hong Kong Time)

• Platform: Zoom Webinar

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• CPD Credits: 1.5 CPD (TMA) credit will be awarded upon completion

• Registration Deadline: 3 July 2025 or until capacity is reached

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