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<div>Dear colleagues, </div>
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<div>I am excited to invite you to two upcoming campus events on subnational US-China relations next week! </div>
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<div>The POLS Department will be hosting Dr. Kyle Jaros for a public talk on Wednesday 10/09 and I will be moderating a discussion with Kyle and Susan Thornton, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, at the Dole Institute on Thursday 10/10.
RSVP links and details below. </div>
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<div><b data-stringify-type="bold" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Wednesday,
October 9 @3pm CDT in Blake 108</b><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">:
Dr. Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame), “<a href="https://calendar.ku.edu/event/trade-war-lab-speaker-dr-kyle-a-jaros">From “Old Friends” to “New Cold War”: Explaining Variation in State-Level US-China Relations 2012-2023</a>"</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">RSVP: </span><font color="#1264a3" face="Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FU3H1xmz26QFPPmhb9&data=05%7C02%7Cpols-announce%40lists.ku.edu%7Ceb23f36011294c3e758308dce244eb69%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638634032899107924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rWEGmgp8NoOoDaNYeCerYR%2FoVQGoqsTZJ7mcpku1r4k%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://forms.gle/U3H1xmz26QFPPmhb9" shash="V33Y+Ej8J7bGhrmDZTzp6iOwWJDv7xGICYNlBRY7JwXmhpnjbD17Rm4Rj6UcDNGHWOqHuiXxrgigj1CJG2ueLv2h4VATpUgE6DWDLWQ2wxs7CwKbEMsiIUtFog1fH27i5aXdlr2TQTjQLwLM8zUt3EbGw3h8anWzNAN5ZQx/1Ko=">https://forms.gle/U3H1xmz26QFPPmhb9</a></span></font></span>
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<div><b data-stringify-type="bold" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thursday,
October 10 @7pm CDT in the Dole Forum</b><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">:
Susan Thornton (Yale Law School) and Dr. Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame), "<a href="https://calendar.ku.edu/event/china-in-the-heartland-building-a-balanced-approach">China in the Heartland: Building a Balanced Approach</a>”</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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<div>Thank you! </div>
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<div>Sincerely, </div>
<div>Jack Zhang </div>
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