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'''Date:''' June 29th 2023 at 18:00 CEST / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT  
'''Platform:''' Cisco Webex Events  

=== Link to Video Recording ===
[https://eucom.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/eucom/recording/playback/fe414732f8c3103b83ff00505681a01b Link to Video Recording] -- Passcode: RSIvideo2023

=== Details ===
RSI will be joined by Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro to discuss her most recent RSI-sponsored research, ''Posing Problems Without Shacking Up: Sino-Russian Military Alignment and Implications for Global Security.'' The discussion will explore the existing relationship between Russia and China and will seek to uncover the conditions required for continued cooperation, as well as explore potential security implications this will create for the United States.

=== Biography ===

==== Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro ====
[[File:Photo_Oriana_Skylar_Mastro.jpg|thumb|200px|Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro]]  
'''Title:''' Center Fellow  
'''Affiliation:''' Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University  

Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. 

She continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve, for which she works as a strategic planner at INDOPACOM. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016. She has published widely, including in ''The New York Times,'' ''Foreign Affairs,'' ''International Security,'' ''International Studies Review,'' ''Journal of Strategic Studies,'' ''The Washington Quarterly,'' ''The National Interest,'' ''Survival,'' and ''Asian Security.'' 

Her book, ''The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime'' (Cornell University Press, 2019), won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Her publications and other commentary can be found on Twitter [https://twitter.com/osmastro @osmastro] and [http://www.orianaskylarmastro.com www.orianaskylarmastro.com].

'''Photo credit:''' Ryan Osland and the Australian