• Living With A China Made Great Again

    Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.;  Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;  former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok […]

  • Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition

    Speaker: Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan

    Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, the Richard H. Armacost Chair, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies,  Director of  the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center;  former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Critical Issues […]

  • The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?

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

    Speaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center  

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future

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

    Speaker: Professor Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair, the 21st Century China Center, School of Global Strategy and Policy, University of California, San Diego Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded – Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping

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

    Speaker: Sebastian Heilmann, President, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin; former Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; former research fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case

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

    Speaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

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

    Speaker: John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center