Events

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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Read 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 States

Speaker: 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 […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Julian Gewirtz – The Global China Challenge

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

Speaker: Julian Gewirtz, Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs, U.S. Department of State; former Director for China, U.S. National Security Council Moderator: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDr. Gewirtz will discuss the PRC's global ambitions and influence, and the efforts of the United States and its allies and partners to […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Ya-Wen Lei – Techno-Capitalism: Social Challenges and Fissures in Today’s China

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

Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology, she holds a LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics

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

Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China’s New Playbook

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

Speaker: Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang, Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Jin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group […]