It was a great pleasure to invite Scott Kennedy into the virtual studio to discuss China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) just recently concluded. There decisions were announced on Hong Kong, with respect to the Chinese economy. These decisions formed the most recent backdrop to the rising tensions between Beijing and the current Trump Administration. In the light of earlier podcast episodes here at Global Summitry (these podcast episodes can be found at iTunes and at Spotify) with Kerry Brown (Ep. 28 and 29) on Xi Jinping\u2019s China, we wanted to get Scott\u2019s take on China and the US-China tensions. \n\nScott is the Senior Advisor and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Scott focuses on Chinese economic policy including industrial policy, technology innovation, business lobbying, US-China commercial relations and global governance. \n\nScott has written extensively on China including his CSIS study \u2018China\u2019s risky drive into new energy vehicles\u2019, and he has edited among other books, Global governance and China: The dragon\u2019s learning curve. \nBefore coming to Washington, Scott was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU\u2019s China Office.