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    China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Nahm's new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States as a window into the political economy of innovation and economic development in highly globalized industries. The book argues that new possibilities for collaboration

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao – China, State Capitalism and the World Trading System

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Henry Gao, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow, CIGI Henry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to

  • China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber – Has China’s Economy Hit the Wall?

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Arthur Kroeber, Founding Partner and Head of Research, Gavekal Dragonomics As China emerged from Covid lockdowns early this year, many expected that its economy would enjoy a roaring recovery. Instead, it has stalled out. Is this just a short term problem? Or is it a sign that China's economy is headed for the "middle

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Scott Kennedy — The Slow Tech Dragon: The Material and Ideational Sources of a Slumping Economy

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Compared to a decade ago, China’s S&T capabilities have grown substantially. Nevertheless, the country’s growth prospects have diminished considerably. This presentation attempts to explain this paradox by analyzing how China’s political economy is shaping the material

  • China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Heng Wang, Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies China’s practices, such as those under the extra-regional Belt and Road Initiative, are selectively reshaping international economic order. More recently, China's role in the international economic

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Qiao Liu — How to Understand China’s Economy?

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Qiao Liu, Professor of Finance; Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University As China’s economy shifts from high-speed growth to a medium-to-high-speed growth stage, maintaining an economic growth rate of around 5% per year has become a more frequently anchored goal when China plans its economic work and formulate macro policies. At the same

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Lizhi Liu — From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University In merely two decades, China has transformed from a digital newcomer to the world’s largest e-commerce market, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom, Lizhi Liu examines how China’s e-commerce boom is inherently "paradoxical," why it addresses

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Christine Wong — From Growth Engine to Fiscal Drag: Rethinking China’s Local Government Finance

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Christine Wong, Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore China’s local governments drive 85% of public spending and over 80% of infrastructure investment, yet their finances are in crisis. A long-term fiscal erosion, collapsing land revenues, and soaring debt have left them struggling to meet obligations. These challenges stem from deeper

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Ka Zeng — Chains of Resilience? The U.S.-China Trade War and Firm Backshoring

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Ka Zeng, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amid rising U.S.-China strategic competition, efforts to decouple the two largest economies or mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by increased economic interdependence through “de-risking” strategies have threatened to upend the extensive supply chain relationships between the two countries. To what extent have recent geopolitical tensions generated

  • Joe Ngai — Where is the “Next China”? It’s Still China — But It Will Require a Different Playbook

    WCC B015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speaker: Joe Ngai, Senior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices, McKinsey & CompanyLocation Change: This event will now be held in WCC B015 (previously WCC 3018). Joe will share his observations of the opportunities ahead for businesses in China, especially in the context of increasingly complex geopolitics, slowdown in the China macro-economy, a rapidly