Critical Issues Confronting China
Events
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor, Founding Member, and Former Research Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College Are rampant removals of top officials from China’s Navy and other services, as well as the defense industry supporting them, decapitating its military advancement? Or do the benefits somehow exceed the
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi — China’s New Venture Capitalists? The Transformation of Local Government Financing Vehicles
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityIn the wake of COVID-19 and the property-market collapse, China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs)—entities created to borrow and invest on behalf of local governments—had accumulated more than $8 trillion in debt
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lynette Ong — Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lynette Ong, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto; Director, China Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public PolicyDigital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however, it also affords autocrats new vectors of control, allowing them to surveil and subjugate dissenters. Yet, in China—the world’s most powerful autocratic state where most