Critical Issues Confronting China
Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang – China’s Housing Conundrum
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics, Harvard University In 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 Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. From 2001–2003, Rogoff served as […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lingling Wei, Senior China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Lingling 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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University Jessica 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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jia Qingguo, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University; Payne Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityModerator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Jia Qingguo is professor of the School of International Studies of Peking University. Currently, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Margaret Pearson – China’s Overseas Economic Push: Influence or Backlash
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Why the Narrative on China’s Rising Overseas Economic Influence Might be Inaccurate Speaker: Margaret Pearson, Dr. Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished Professor, and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park Moderator: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ma Jun – Can China Meet its Green Targets?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment ***PLEASE NOTE EARLIER START TIME*** President Xi Jinping has sought to make the environment part of his lasting legacy. Since 2012, China […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Austin Strange – China’s Overseas Infrastructure: Bumps Along the Road to Global Influence?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Austin Strange, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong Infrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations, infrastructure projects are important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. But do overseas infrastructure projects actually serve as […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zak Dychtwald – What Do China’s Youth Want?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zak Dychtwald, Founder and CEO, Young China Group There is enormous discussion of China’s hundreds of millions of young people. Consumer, competitor, collaborator, and most recently political participant – this young generation will define China’s role on the world stage in the decades to come. They have grown up with enormous economic progress, relatively […]
Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: How a Slowing Economy—and Big Hospitals—Are Challenging Healthcare Reform in China Speaker: 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 Discussant: William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics, Emeritus, in […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong – US-China Competition in the Coming Decade
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Xuetong, Dean, Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University Discussant: Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Harvard University Also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0JzdYljR3i0m2jLjBgakQ Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: China’s New Maritime “Rules” in Asia Could Lead to Conflict Speaker: Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Discussant: Takuhiro Ikeda, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Who makes "the rules" of international order? The international […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yao Yang – China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of 40 Years of Reform
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yao Yang, Dean, National School of Development at Peking University Forty years of reform and opening up have resulted in rapid growth and rising living standards for many Chinese, but also left a series of dire consequences. Professor YAO Yang, Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, explains how the economic agenda […]