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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yuen Yuen Ang - China's Corrupt Meritocracy
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-corrupt-meritocracy-with-yuen-yuen-ang?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nRead 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 Jean Oi - The Political Genesis of Local Government Debt in China
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-political-genesis-of-local-government-debt-in-china-with-jean-oi?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nRead 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 Anne-Marie Brady - Magic Weapons: How the Democratic States are Responding to China’s Political Interference Activities
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/magic-weapons-with-anne-marie-brady?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nRead 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 M. Taylor Fravel - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-military-strategy-in-the-new-era-with-m-taylor-fravel?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nRead 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 Sheena Greitens - China's Approach to National Security under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-approach-to-national-security-under-xi-jinping-with-sheena-greitens?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nSpeaker: 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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