Events

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bonnie Glaser – How Great is the Risk of War Over Taiwan?

  https://youtu.be/gvHLF-1zjc0 https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-great-is-the-risk-of-war-over-taiwan-with-bonnie-glaser There is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can […]

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Jeffrey S. Lehman – What Does U.S. Business Really Want From China?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G7NarElPM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/what-does-us-business-really-want-from-china-with-jeffrey-lehman Speaker: Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law, NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, the 11th president of […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Bill Bikales – From Poverty Eradication to Common Prosperity: Reflections on Recent Poverty Achievements and Implications for the Next Phase of Development

Speaker: Bill Bikales, Principal and Lead Economist, Kunlun Associates Bill is a Harvard-trained economist and Asia specialist and has worked at the most senior level of government in Mongolia on comprehensive fiscal reform and restructuring insolvent bank and power sectors, and at grass roots level in rural China on increasing poor women's uptake of maternal […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li – Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress

Speaker: Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Cheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jennifer Pan – Wielding Welfare to Support Autocracy

Speaker: Jennifer Pan, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Jennifer Pan is an Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch – China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era

Speaker: William Alan Reinsch, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School William Reinsch holds the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a senior adviser at Kelley, Drye & Warren […]

Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh

Speaker: John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School John Haigh is Co-Director of the […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding – The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China

Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye – US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Moderator: William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School Joseph Nye received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has […]