Former Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Ed Case said he’s heading to Washington next week to participate in The Atlantic’s Ideas Forum. 

Case said he was asked to sit on a foreign affairs roundtable to discuss how the United States should handle the “growing economic asymmetry between China and the U.S.”

“This is one of the crucial questions of our times and will be foremost in our national debates on Capitol Hill over the coming decades,” Case wrote in an email to supporters. “It is also crucial for our Hawai‘i, not only as our country’s Asia-Pacific center but because we have so much to gain in our tourism, healthcare, alternate energy, agriculture and other export industries from a mutually stable trade relationship with China.”