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  • Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge

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

    Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?

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

    Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.China presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach, China’s UN Security Council veto,

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

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

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind

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

    Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth UniversityGreat power competition requires countries to be technological leaders, but an influential literature holds that autocracies, which suppress creativity and information flows, stifle innovation. Many observers of China's rise thus argued that it would be unable to compete technologically with the United States. Jennifer Lind’s Autocracy 2.0 shows that China

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?

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

    Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence CounselMore information coming soon. Robert Lee Suettinger is a historian of contemporary elite politics in the People’s Republic of China. He recently completed a biography of Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), General Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party of China, published by Harvard

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China’s Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy

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

    Speaker: Dongsheng Zang, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawThe talk aims to provide a framework in understanding China's industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade, 2016-2026. It examines the AI policy from the perspective of state-industry relationship. For this purpose, it divides the decade into three stages of development:

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Ian Johnson — Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future

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

    Speaker: Ian Johnson, Author; Founder, China Unofficial Archives More information coming soon. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, teacher, and researcher. He has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years, writing on the country’s search for faith and values, as well as efforts to control dissent and history. He was a