Suisheng Zhao, professor and director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, delivered the lecture "Xi Jinping’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications" on November 8, 2023. The lecture draws from his new book, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy to trace the dramatic shifts in China’s foreign policy since its founding in 1949 and the key roles played by Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. Joshua Eisenman, Liu faculty fellow and associate professor of politics for the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, facilitated the talk.