Tomáš Klvaňa

Tomáš Klvaňa is Executive Director of Aspen Institute Central Europe, based in Prague. He is also a visiting professor at New York University Prague, a senior international consultant in public affairs and strategic communications, and a former spokesman and adviser to the President of the Czech Republic.

Middle Powers Need U.S. Power to Resist Chinese Coercion

Middle powers are seeking leverage between a less reliable Washington and a more coercive Beijing, but the speakers argued that coordination cannot substitute for American power. In a Jonathan Capehart-moderated Aspen Ideas Festival panel, Chrystia Freeland, Sadanand Dhume, and Shannon O’Neil said countries outside the two dominant powers need deeper cooperation, but remain constrained by divergent interests, supply-chain dependence, collective-action problems, and the continuing indispensability of the United States.

The Aspen InstituteJul 2, 202619 min read