Critical Issues Confronting China Series
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang, Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Jin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li – How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, University of California - Irvine Rising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire – Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure, only to […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College China’s surveillance state has attracted much attention in the media, but there is little serious research on its organization, scope, and operational tactics. Evidence gathered from hundreds of local yearbooks and police gazettes shows that the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui – China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wang Hui, Changjiang Scholar Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Moderator/Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Univsersity Wang Hui‘s research interests includes Chinese intellectual history, Chinese literature, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs *PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* Thomas Schelling’s theoretical work on coercive diplomacy carries important lessons for U.S. security policy toward a rising China. This talk will address the challenges in […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University After years of rapid fertility decline, China is facing plummeting birth rates, a shrinking work force, and rapid aging. In 2016, Beijing abandoned its notorious one-child policy, allowing two and, in 2021, three children per couple. Outside China, the three-child policy […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang – Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Director, Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law China’s economy is at a crossroads, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil, a fierce debate has emerged among experts: Is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher – An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Keith Bradsher, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times China’s economy is slowing, dragged down by real estate troubles, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Eyck Freymann and Hugo Bromley – Avalanche Decoupling: Economic Contingency Planning for Taiwan Crisis
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow, Stanford UniversityHugo Bromley, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Geopolitics, University of CambridgeMore information coming soon. Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, where he studies the geopolitics of climate change and strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. Trained as an economic historian and China specialist, he is also the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Oriana Skylar Mastro — The Future of Great Power Competition: Will China’s Strategy Succeed?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Non-resident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moderator: Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at […]