Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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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., CambridgeSpeaker: Ian Johnson, Author; Founder, China Unofficial Archives Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University 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
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., CambridgeSpeaker: Dongsheng Zang, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolThe 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
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., CambridgeSpeaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence Counsel Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Professor of History, Harvard UniversityOver the past year, Robert Suettinger has spent much time monitoring domestic politics in the People’s Republic of China, much as he did as an apprentice political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency fifty years