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SUMMARY:What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Katherine Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) \n\n\n\nAmbassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet\, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor\, negotiator\, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation\, Ambassador Tai spent nearly 2 decades in public service focusing on crafting\, monitoring\, and enforcing U.S. and international trade laws. She previously served the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives as Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director. She is also an experienced WTO litigator. From 2007 to 2014\, Ambassador Tai developed and tried cases for USTR\, eventually becoming the agency’s Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement. Ambassador Tai graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. She began her career practicing law in the private sector\, clerking for federal judges in the Districts of Columbia and Maryland\, and teaching English in Guangzhou\, China. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-would-a-rational-and-effective-u-s-china-trade-policy-look-like-is-one-still-possible/
LOCATION:WCC B015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen\, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College. Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion: How Paul Cohen Changed HistoryModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanelists:Cynthia Brokaw\, Chen Family Professor of China Studies\, Brown UniversityAngela Ki Che Leung\, Professor Emerita\, Hong Kong University (video)Ellen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesGuoqi Xu\, David Chang Professor of Chinese history\, University of Hong Kong (video)Joseph Esherick\, Professor of History\, emeritus\, University of California San DiegoRemembrancesModerators:Waiyee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Shennan\, Professor of History and Provost emeritus\, Wellesley CollegeC. Patterson Giersch\, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History\, Wellesley CollegeJoanna Handlin Smith\, Editor emerita\, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesCatherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityDailan Xu\, Class of 2027\, Harvard CollegeAudience Remembrances \n\n\n\nSpecial Remarks:Elizabeth Sinn\, Honorary Professor\, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong KongCLOSING REMARKSWaiyee Li\, colleagueEllen Widmer\, colleagueReception to follow  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-history-in-china-remembering-paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5\, Gutman Library\, 6 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents\, Labor Anxiety\, and Radical Pragmatism in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lihui Zhang\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nIn this study group\, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang\, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI\, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies increasingly restrict employee access to AI tools due to security concerns\, Chinese organizations have embraced such technologies nearly universally across workplaces.Paradoxically\, this widespread integration occurs alongside growing public apprehension about workforce displacement. Many Chinese workers express genuine concern that AI will eventually replace human labor\, creating a complex emotional landscape of excitement and fear. This tension reflects broader global conversations about technological advancement and economic transformation in the AI era. China’s unique societal response to technology is precisely what makes it a potential testing ground for how humanity can address the challenges of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-openclaw-paradox-ai-agents-labor-anxiety-and-radical-pragmatism-in-china/
LOCATION:M-RCBG Conference Room B-102\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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