AGENDA
Hearing on "An Axis of Autocracy? China’s Relations with Russia, Iran, and North Korea"
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 608, and Webex
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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Jonathan Stivers and Commissioner Aaron Friedberg
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
9:10 AM – 10:40 AM: Panel I: Is There an Axis of Autocracies?
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Fellow and Director of Transatlantic Security Program, Center for New American Security [Testimony]
- Christopher Walker, Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy [Testimony]
- Christopher Chivvis, Senior Fellow and Director of American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [Testimony]
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM: Break
10:50 AM – 12:20 PM: Panel II: Economic Linkages and Sanctions Evasion
- Kimberly Donovan, Director of Economic Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council [Testimony]
- Elina Ribakova, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics [Testimony]
- Anthony Ruggiero, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies [Testimony]
12:20 PM – 1:20 PM: Lunch Break
1:20 PM – 3:20 PM: Panel III: Military and Security Cooperation
- Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Naval Analyses [Testimony]
- Jemima Baar, Independent Researcher [Testimony]
- Jake Rinaldi, Defense Analyst, U.S. Army War College [Testimony]
- Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, University of Texas Austin [Testimony]
3:20 PM – 3:25 PM: Closing Remarks
3:25 PM: Adjourn
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