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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss - How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jessica Chen Weiss\, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies\, Cornell University \n\n\n\nJessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022\, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press\, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization\, China Quarterly\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, Security Studies\, Journal of Contemporary China\, and Review of International Political Economy\, as well as in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Quarterly. Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES\, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle\, Washington\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego in 2008\, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations\, law and politics. Weiss is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qJNv4p3ZQcqNS46yeKhHiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jessica-chen-weiss-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei - How China's Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping's State Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lingling Wei\, Senior China Correspondent\, The Wall Street Journal \n\n\n\nLingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China’s political economy\, focusing on Beijing’s policy-making process and its key decision makers. Born and raised in China\, she has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U. and got her start covering U.S. real estate and finance.This talk also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EPEoToVgRkWo1GkYp86SOw.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-lingling-wei-how-chinas-private-business-is-responding-to-xi-jinpings-state-capitalism/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang - China’s Housing Conundrum
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kenneth Rogoff\, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn Conversation With:Yuanchen Yang\, Economist in the Macro-Policy Division of the Strategy\, Policy\, and Review Department\, International Monetary Fund\, andDavid Yang\, Assistant Professor of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nKenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. From 2001–2003\, Rogoff served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. His widely-cited 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart\, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly\, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the run-up and the aftermath of severe financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his seminal work on exchange rates and on central bank independence. Together with Maurice Obstfeld\, he is co-author of Foundations of International Macroeconomics\, a treatise that has also become a widely-used graduate text in the field worldwide. Rogoff’s 2016 book The Curse of Cash looks at the past\, present and future of currency from standardized coinage to crypto-currencies. The book argues that although much of modern macroeconomics abstracts from the nature of currency\, it is in fact lies at the heart of some of the most fundamental problems in monetary policy and public finance. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries. \n\n\n\nThis event also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1zjnpsJ8QfSeeGw5Dt7R1Q \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang – China’s Housing Conundrum”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-kenneth-rogoff/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher - The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with: Michael McElroy\, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher\, Academic Dean and Founding Director\, Climate Policy Lab\, The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \n\n\n\nIn conversation with: Michael McElroy\, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nHow China is Winning the Race for Clean Energy Technology \nEvent summary by Theodore Chia\n\n\n\nWith the passage of the CHIPS legislation and Inflation Reduction Act\, the United States is poised to step up its game in clean and efficient energy.  Can it catch up to China\, which already dominates global markets in most clean energy technologies?  Which other countries are in this race\, and how can it be won? \n\n\n\nKelly Sims Gallagher is Academic Dean and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School. She directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher.  She served in the second term of Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy\, and as Senior China Advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. State Department.  \n\n\n\nGallagher is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University\, serves on the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academies of Science\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, and also serves on the board of Energy Foundation China. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nBroadly\, she focuses on energy innovation and climate policy.  She specializes in how policy spurs the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies\, domestically and internationally.  She is the author of Titans of the Climate (The MIT Press 2018)\, The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (MIT Press 2014)\, China Shifts Gears: Automakers\, Oil\, Pollution\, and Development (The MIT Press 2006)\, and dozens of other articles and book chapters. \n\n\n\nThis event also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CI5KxHx1QY6S9HAyh3jbUA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-kelly-gallagher/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring John K. Culver: How China's Catastrophic Success\, US Strategic Blunders Fueled Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Ex CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule \n\n\n\nSpeaker: John Culver\, Senior Fellow\, Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub; Former Senior Intelligence Officer\, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  \n\n\n\nJohn K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading analyst of East Asian affairs\, including security\, economic\, and foreign-policy dimensions. \n\n\n\nPreviously as national intelligence officer for East Asia from 2015 to 2018\, Culver drove the Intelligence Community’s support to top policymakers on East Asian issues and managed extensive relationships inside and outside government. He produced a large body of sophisticated\, leading-edge analysis and mentored widely on analytic tradecraft. He also routinely represented the Intelligence Community to senior US policy\, military\, academic\, private-sector and foreign-government audiences. \n\n\n\nCulver is a recipient of the 2013 William L. Langer Award for extraordinary achievement in the CIA’s analytic mission. He was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service and CIA’s Senior Analytic Service. He was also awarded the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. \n\n\n\nEx CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule Event summary by Dorinda Elliott\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-john-k-culver/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanzhong Huang -  Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?
DESCRIPTION:Register now for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Is ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yanzhong Huang\, Professor and Director\, Center for Global Health Studies\, Seton Hall University \n\n\n\nChina’s zero-Covid policy\, while shielding the country from Covid-19 and facilitating state control over society\, also has compounded\, even undermined its ability to cope with other domestic challenges by generating unintended\, and often undesirable outcomes in Chinese society.  The downstream impacts or unintended consequences include but are not limited to: 1) economic slowdown and rising youth unemployment rate; 2) the reduced desires of young couples to form families and reproduce; 3) increased mental health issues; 4) ) growing non-communicable disease burden; and 5) setback for the healthcare reform. In the meantime\, singled-minded pursuit of zero-Covid has stretched thin bureaucratic and fiscal capacity\, highlighting and exacerbating the inadequacy of the state capacity in addressing the growing domestic challenges.    \n\n\n\nIs ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences Event summary by Austin Jordan\n\n\n\n“Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?” poster\n\n\n\nDr. Yanzhong Huang joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in the fall of 2003. He directs the School’s Center for Global Health Studies\, which examines global health issues from a foreign policy and security perspective. He is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. \n\n\n\nHe has written extensively on global health governance\, health diplomacy\, health security\, public health in China and East Asia. He has published numerous reports\, journal articles\, and book chapters\, including articles in Survival\, Foreign Affairs\, Bioterrorism and Biosecurity\, and Journal of Contemporary China\, as well as op-ed pieces appearing in New York Times\, International Herald Tribune\, The Diplomat\, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS\, among others. In 2006\, he coauthored the first scholarly article that systematically examines China’s soft power. His book\, Governing Health in Contemporary China\, looks at the health care reform\, government ability to address disease outbreaks\, and food and drug safety in China. Most recently\, he was listed by Inside Jersey magazine as one of New Jersey’s “20 exceptional intellects who are changing the world.” He is frequently consulted by major media outlets\, the private sector\, and governmental and non-governmental organizations on global health issues and China. He was a research associate of the National Asia Research Program\, a public intellectuals fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations\, a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\nDr. Huang received his Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In summer 2006\, he obtained a certificate from MIT’s Professional Program on Combating Bioterrorism and Pandemics. During 1992-1993\, he was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Chinese and American Studies\, Nanjing\, China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yanzhong-huang-how-zero-covid-has-compounded-chinas-ability-to-address-other-domestic-challenges/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T090000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bert Hofman - A Broad Assessment of the Growth Outlook for China—Will it Meet Xi Jinping’s Goals\, Will China Overtake the US? How Will China Seek to Achieve this?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bert Hofman\, Director\, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice\, Lee Kuan Yew School\, National University Singapore \n\n\n\nCommentator: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management; Professor\, Global Economics and Management\, MIT \n\n\n\nModerator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\n***NOTE EARLIER START TIME***Bert Hofman\, a Dutch national\, is the director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School. Before joining NUS\, he has been working with the World Bank for 27 years\, 22 of which in Asia\, and 12 of which on China. Mr Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019\, the country economist 2004-2008\, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014. He also worked on Indonesia\, the Philippines\, Korea and Mongolia. Before coming to the World Bank\, Mr Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics\, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). Mr Hofman has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues\, and he has published on fiscal policy\, debt issues\, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.Also streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-bert-hofman/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye - US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joseph S. Nye\, Jr.\, University Distinguished Service Professor\, Emeritus and former Dean\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n\n\n\nModerator: William Overholt\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nJoseph 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 served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs\, Chair of the National Intelligence Council\, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance\, Science and Technology. His most recent books include The Power to Lead; The Future of Power; Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era; and Is the American Century Over. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the British Academy\, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars\, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy\, and in 2011\, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global  Thinkers. \n\n\n\nAlso streaming on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-joseph-nye-us-china-strategy-and-the-lessons-of-history/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding - The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Pittsburgh\nModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nWhat does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language\, symbols\, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation\, in-depth interviews\, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates with vivid detail how China’s environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. Bureaucrats assuage public outrage by appearing responsive and benevolent before citizens. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving “performance legitimacy” through actual good governance and its desirable outcomes\, the state can shape public opinion with theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The book also explains why performative governance sometimes fails at impressing its audience\, and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive.   \nIza Ding is an assistant professor of political science and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines two interconnected issues that are becoming more challenging and consequential than ever: environmental and climate politics and policy\, and the politics of autocracy and democracy. Her articles have appeared in World Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Democratization\, Studies in Comparative and International Development\, and China Quarterly. Her book The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China is forthcoming with Cornell University Press in summer 2022.  \nPresented via Zoom webinar\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1knAizOSR-ih45-cmS5-rQ \nAlso streaming on YouTube
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-iza-ding/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh
DESCRIPTION: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 \nJohn Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions to second year Master in Public Policy students (BGP-150Y); a seminar on business and public policy for students in the second year of the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School joint degree program (HBS 5222); and a module on corporate citizenship and public policy (BGP-231M). He focuses on teaching general management skills along with addressing issues of competition\, technology\, innovation and regulation.  From 2005 through 2017 he served as the Executive Dean of the Kennedy School\, engaging in strategic decisions and overseeing the operating and financial activities of the school. \nFrom 1996 through 2005 he was an officer at AT&T and subsequently AT&T Wireless\, where he held a variety of strategy and leadership positions. At AT&T he initially focused on strategy and business development issues and was later promoted to President of AT&Ts International Ventures. He then was Senior Vice President of AT&T Wireless’s emerging initiatives efforts developing new wireless services.  Prior to joining AT&T he was at Mercer Management Consulting for 13 years\, where he was a partner.  His work focused on strategy issues in multiple industries including telecommunications\, transportation\, energy\, and the environment.   Haigh holds a BA from Grinnell College\, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and the President’s Medalist\, and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-john-haigh/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xingxing Wang - Chinese Policy Toward North Korea
DESCRIPTION:Regrettably\, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date. \nSpeaker: Xingxing Wang\, Professor& Director\, Research Center for Strategy of Korean Peninsula\, School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Shanghai International Studies UniversityModerator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nOver the last decade\, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University—among several other universities in South Korea— Her research primarily concerns Northeast Asian studies\, particularly focusing on the intersection between China\, the Korean Peninsula and China-U.S. relations. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P5pV4WDCTM2g-rEXGIDHXg \nAlso streaming on YouTube
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-xingxing-wang-chinese-policy-toward-north-korea/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang - Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guobin Yang\, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology\, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology\, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon\, Senior Lecturer on Government\, Harvard University \nThe sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8\, 2020 was an extraordinary historical event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia University Press\, Guobin Yang’s The Wuhan Lockdown recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of scenes and characters. This talk introduces the main features of the book and then zooms in on one theme – that of voice. The lockdown of the city was a period of life marked by both loud voices of shouting and yelling and by quiet voices of reflection and rumination. What did residents in Wuhan try to say in their loud or quiet ways? Who heard their voices? Who listened? \nGuobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown (2022)\, The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016)\, and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books\, including Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms\, Publics and Production (2021). \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-guobin-yang-listening-to-the-wuhan-lockdown/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch - China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
DESCRIPTION: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 \nWilliam 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 LLP. Previously\, he served for 15 years as president of the National Foreign Trade Council\, where he led efforts in favor of open markets\, in support of the Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation\, against unilateral sanctions\, and in support of sound international tax policy\, among many issues. From 2001 to 2016\, he concurrently served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy\, teaching courses in globalization\, trade policy\, and politics. \nReinsch also served as the under secretary of commerce for export administration during the Clinton administration. Prior to that\, he spent 20 years on Capitol Hill\, most of them as senior legislative assistant to the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA) and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies respectively. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-william-alan-reinsch/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jennifer Pan - Wielding Welfare to Support Autocracy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jennifer Pan\, Associate Professor of Communication\, Stanford University\nModerator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nJennifer 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 regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship\, propaganda\, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result. \nHer book\, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford\, 2020) shows how China’s pursuit of political order transformed the country’s main social assistance program\, Dibao\, for repressive purposes. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Journal of Politics\, and Science. \nShe graduated from Princeton University\, summa cum laude\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bgayHfbUSx6w_9SbH2BsdQ \nThis seminar will not be recorded for delayed viewing.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jennifer-pan-wielding-welfare-to-support-autocracy/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li - Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION: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 \nCheng 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 of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders\, generational change\, the Chinese middle class\, and technological development in China. \nLi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In 1985\, he came to the United States\, where he received a master’s in Asian studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and a doctorate in political science from Princeton University. From 1993 to 1995\, he worked in China as a fellow sponsored by the Institute of Current World Affairs in the U.S.\, observing grassroots changes in his native country. Based on this experience\, he published a nationally acclaimed book\, “Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform” (1997). \nLi is also the author or the editor of numerous books\, including “China’s Leaders: The New Generation” (2001)\, “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003” (2005)\, “China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy” (2008)\, “China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation” (2010)\, “The Road to Zhongnanhai: High-Level Leadership Groups on the Eve of the 18th Party Congress” (in Chinese\, 2012)\, “The Political Mapping of China’s Tobacco Industry and Anti-Smoking Campaign” (2012)\, “China’s Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives” (2014)\, “Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership” (2016)\, “The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China” (2017)\, and “Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement” (Spring 2021). He is currently completing a book manuscript with the working title “Xi Jinping’s Protégés: Rising Elite Groups in the Chinese Leadership”. He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-cheng-li/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Naima Green-Riley - Pinyin and Paper Fans: China-Funded Education Programs in U.S. Schools
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Naima Green-Riley\, Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow\, Department of Government\, Harvard University; Former Consular Officer\, US. Consulate General\, Guangzhou\, China \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-naima-green-riley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T123000
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bill Bikales\, Principal and Lead Economist\, Kunlun Associates \nBill 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 health services. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-bill-bikales/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Jeffrey S. Lehman - What Does U.S. Business Really Want From China?
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nSpeaker: Jeffrey Lehman\, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law\, NYU Shanghai \nJeffrey 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 Cornell University\, and the founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law. \nPrior to joining the University of Michigan Law School\, Lehman served as a law clerk to Frank M. Coffin\, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. He then spent four years at Caplin & Drysdale\, a Washington\, DC law firm. Throughout his professional and academic career\, Lehman has volunteered his time and energy to nonprofit organizations that share his commitments in the fields of higher education\, law\, and technology. \nLehman received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cornell University\, an MPP from the University of Michigan\, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is a multi-award winner for his work both in the United States and abroad\, including the Friendship Award\, which is China’s highest honor for “foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and social progress.” Lehman is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Peking University. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-jeffrey-s-lehman/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bonnie Glaser - How Great is the Risk of War Over Taiwan?
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nThere 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 seize and control Taiwan\, will it do so? Assessing the potential for such an attack also requires an understanding of Xi Jinping’s strategy toward Taiwan and his risk/benefit calculus. The policies of the United States and Taiwan\, and how they are viewed in Beijing\, also need to be taken into account. \nSpeaker: Bonnie Glaser\, Director\, Asia Program\, German Marshall Fund of the United States \n\n\nBonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney\, Australia\, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades\, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. \n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-bonnie-glaser/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Luke Patey — How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luke Patey\, Senior Researcher\, Danish Institute for International Studies \nAt a time when many are fixated on US-China strategic competition\, how will China’s relations with the rest of the world shape its future power? From its Belt and Road Initiative linking Asia and Europe\, to its “Made in China 2025” strategy to dominate high-tech industries\, to its significant economic reach into Africa and Latin America\, China appears primed to become the world’s dominant superpower. But China also faces considerable new risks and challenges. Drawing on studies of selected countries in East Africa\, Latin America\, Europe\, and East Asia\, Luke Patey will discuss how many countries are recognizing that relations with China can undermine their independence and competitiveness and are working together to recalibrate their engagement \nDr. Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Lead Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies\, University of Oxford. He is author of the new book\, How China Loses: The Pushback Against China’s Global Ambitions (Oxford University Press\, 2021). His work focuses on the intersection of China’s trade\, investment\, and finance with its foreign and security policy. His articles have appeared in The New York Times\, Financial Times\, The Guardian\, The Hindu\, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. He holds a doctorate and MSc from the Copenhagen Business School and a bachelor degree from Queen’s University. Patey’s last book was The New Kings of Crude: China\, India\, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan (Hurst\, 2014). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-luke-patey-how-china-loses-the-pushback-against-chinese-global-ambitions/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss - A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss\, Associate Professor of Government\, Cornell University \nHow does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions? The Chinese leadership has been at once a revisionist\, defender\, reformer\, and free-rider in the international system—insisting rigidly on issues that are central to its domestic survival\, while showing flexibility on issues that are more peripheral. To illuminate this variation and prospects for conflict and cooperation\, Weiss will discuss her new book project\, which theorizes and illustrates the domestic-international linkages in Beijing’s approach to issues ranging from sovereignty and homeland disputes to climate change and COVID-19. \nJessica Chen Weiss is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press\, 2014). The dissertation on which it is based won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations\, law and politics. \nHer work has appeared or is forthcoming in International Organization\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and Security Studies. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, Cornell Einaudi Center\, Cornell Center for Social Sciences\, Uppsala University\, Princeton-Harvard China & The World Program\, Bradley Foundation\, Fulbright-Hays program\, and University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. \nBorn and raised in Seattle\, Washington\, Weiss received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego. Before joining Cornell\, she was an assistant professor at Yale University (2009-2015) and founded FACES\, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford\, while an undergraduate at Stanford University. Learn more about her research and writing at www.jessicachenweiss.com. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jessica-chen-weiss/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad - China’s Role in Global Finance
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Eswar Prasad\, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy\, Cornell University; Senior Fellow and New Century Chair in International Economics\, Brookings Institution; Research Associate\, National Bureau of Economic Research. \nThis lecture will discuss China’s economic prospects\, policies\, and reforms\, and their implications for its role in international finance. The lecture will cover China’s economy\, financial markets\, and the renminbi\, and also touch upon the country’s new digital currency. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eswar-prasad-critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar - China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Dollar\, Senior Fellow\, Foreign Policy\, Global Economy and Development\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings Institution \nChina has gotten COVID-19 under control and is poised to bounce back strongly with 8% growth in 2021.  But in the medium term it faces daunting domestic and external challenges. On the domestic side\, demographic shifts will result in a declining labor force and put a premium on geographic mobility\, especially rural-urban migration. Also\, over-reliance on investment has led to an alarming rise in debt to GDP\, risking a financial crisis. To grow well while managing these issues of labor and investment will require more innovation as a source of growth. On the external side\, the trade war with the U.S. is not likely to be resolved quickly with the new Biden administration.  China’s recent agreements with Asian partners and Europe\, however\, provide new opportunities that complement domestic reforms. \nDavid Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and host of the Brookings trade podcast\, Dollar&Sense. He is a leading expert on China’s economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013\, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China\, based in Beijing\, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. Prior to joining Treasury\, Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank\, serving as country director for China and Mongolia\, based in Beijing (2004-2009). His other World Bank assignments focused on Asian economies\, including South Korea\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Bangladesh\, and India. Dollar also worked in the World Bank’s research department. His publications focus on economic reform in China\, globalization\, and economic growth. He also taught economics at University of California Los Angeles\, during which time he spent a semester in Beijing at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986. He has a doctorate in economics from New York University and a bachelor’s in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-featuring-david-dollar/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Sheena Greitens - China's Approach to National Security under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sheena Greitens\, Associate Professor\, University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs \nSheena Chestnut Greitens is an associate professor at the LBJ School\, as well as a faculty fellow with the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. \nHer work focuses on East Asia\, American national security\, authoritarian politics\, and foreign policy. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution\, an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, and a member of the Digital Freedom Forum at the Center for a New American Security. \nShe holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University\, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-sheena-greitens/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring M. Taylor Fravel - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: M. Taylor Fravel\, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nModerator: Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College China MaritimeStudies Institute \nM. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on international security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include\, Strong Borders\, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security\, Foreign Affairs\, Security Studies\, International Studies Review\, The China Quarterly\, The Washington Quarterly\, Journal of Strategic Studies\, Armed Forces & Society\, Current History\, Asian Survey\, Asian Security\, China Leadership Monitor\, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. \nTaylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-m-taylor-fravel/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne-Marie Brady - Magic Weapons: How the Democratic States are Responding to China’s Political Interference Activities
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Anne-Marie Brady\, Professor\, University of Canterbury\, New Zealand \nProfessor Brady is a specialist of Chinese politics (domestic politics and foreign policy)\, polar politics\, Pacific politics\, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker. She is founding and executive editor of The Polar Journal (Taylor and Francis Publishers). She has published ten books and over fifty scholarly papers. She has written op eds for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Australian\, Sydney Morning Herald\, and The Financial Times. Her research has a strong policy focus. \nIn 2017\, Professor Brady put her conference paper “Magic Weapons: CCP Political Influence Activities Under Xi Jinping” online\, as the topic was of public interest. The paper has been downloaded more 160\, 000 times and has helped spark a debate in New Zealand\, as well as internationally\, that resulted in a Parliamentary Inquiry into Foreign Interference in New Zealand. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/magic-weapons-chinas-political-influence-activities-under-xi-jinping \nProfessor Brady is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. In 2014 she was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council on the Arctic. Her recent books include: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2008)\, China’s Thought Management (Routledge\, 2012)\, The Emerging Politics of Antarctica (Routledge\, 2013)\, China as a Polar Great Power (Cambridge University Press and Wilson Press\, 2017)\, and Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future (Springer\, 2019). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-anne-marie-brady/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi - The Political Genesis of Local Government Debt in China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Jean Oi\, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics\, Department of Political Science; Director\, Stanford China Program\, Stanford University \nChina’s rapidly growing local government debt (LGD) is now branded a “grey rhino\,” a known threat that has received little attention.  Why did Beijing let LGD get so out of hand?  What are the sources of LGD?  There is evidence to suggest that no matter how honest and law-abiding local cadres might be\, localities are likely to have local government debt.  Prof. Oi will argue that LGD stems from a grand bargain between the center and the localities that was made to secure support for the 1994 fiscals reforms.  This series of policy decisions institutionalized backdoor financing\, creating a “win-win” solution that recentralized tax revenues to Beijing while countering the downsides of fiscal recentralization for the localities.  The cost\, however\, was that China’s economic growth model was increasingly undergirded by mounting LGD\, with little transparency and control by the center. \nJean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor on Chinese Politics in the department of political science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Stanford China Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Professor Oi also is the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. \nA PhD in political science from the University of Michigan\, Oi first taught at Lehigh University and later in the department of government at Harvard University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1997. \nHer work focuses on comparative politics\, with special expertise on China’s political economy and institutions in the process of reform. Fiscal politics and central-local relations in China are at the center of Oi’s research. Recent work delves inside local-level institutions to sheds new light on China’s authoritarian resilience by exploring how county governments through adaptive governance have been able to cope as the economy has grown exponentially and demands and needs from an increasingly complex society put more strains on resources and the political system. Most recently\, she co-edited a volume that highlights the challenges China now faces after reaping record breaking growth the last 40 years by only tweaking the institutions that it inherited from the Mao period. Current leaders continue to kick the can down the road rather than tackle the most political difficult part of the reform process. Instead\, leaders seems to be “going back to the future\,” relying on a playbook not seen since the Mao period. \nCurrent projects focus on growing local government debt in China and why there is so much when law prohibits localities from borrowing and budget deficits. Moving beyond her earlier work\, Oi also has begun a project to empirically assess the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Oi takes an institutional and micro-level approach to identify the key players and their interests. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jean-oi/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yuen Yuen Ang - China's Corrupt Meritocracy
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nSpeaker: Yuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan \nPortrayals of China’s political economy tend to be divided\, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy\, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact\, neither view is correct: in the Chinese officialdom\, competence and corruption can go hand in hand. Drawing on her new book\, China’s Gilded Age (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, Ang underscores that paradoxes define China’s political economy. Chinese growth is speedy yet risky and imbalanced. Corrupt officials worship the pursuit of prosperity. China’s regime is authoritarian yet its regions are decentralized and highly competitive. Understanding China requires that we grasp these seeming paradoxes\, which will persist well into the next decade. \nYuen Yuen Ang is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize\, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful empirical\, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.” She is also named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship [on] the most pressing issues of our times.” Her first\, award-winning book\, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016)\, is acclaimed as “game changing” and “field shifting.” The sequel to this book\, China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption\, is released in 2020. She writes for a broad audience in Foreign Affairs and Project Syndicate. Ang is a graduate of Colorado College and Stanford University\, and a Public Intellectual Fellow at the National Committee of US-China Relations. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yuen-yuen-ang/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrea Ghiselli - Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyI34EGR4k \n \nSpeaker: Andrea Ghiselli\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University\nModerator: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \nThe securitization of non-traditional security issues is a scarcely discussed and\, yet\, extremely powerful force that shapes the evolution of Chinese foreign and security policy. The lecture will show how this tortuous process deeply shaped China’s approach to the protection of the life and assets of Chinese nationals overseas\, an aspect of Chinese foreign policy that is already\, and will become increasingly important over time. This became evident as\, especially after the evacuation of 36\,000 Chinese nationals from Libya in 2011\, Chinese institutions evolved and issued new regulations that are also aimed at supporting the possible use of the military overseas. \nDr. Andrea Ghiselli is an assistant professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University. He is also the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project\, a research project on China’s role in the wider Mediterranean region sponsored by the University of Torino’s TOChina Hub. Andrea’s research interests include Chinese foreign policy\, China-Middle East relations\, and foreign policy analysis. Besides his book Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy published by Oxford University Press\, his research on Chinese foreign policy has been published in peer-reviewed journals like the China Quarterly\, the Journal of Strategic Studies\, the Journal of Contemporary China\, and Armed Forces & Society. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-andrea-ghiselli-protecting-chinas-interests-overseas-securitization-and-foreign-policy/
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Deborah Brautigam  - Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics: Sri Lanka\, Angola\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Deborah Brautigam\, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy\, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-sebastian-heilmann-why-systemic-competition-with-china-is-good-for-western-democracies/
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