Critical Issues Confronting China
China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
Speakers: Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Naima Green-Riley, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Department of Communication, Georgia State University Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang – Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
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 The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an extraordinary historical event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia […]
POSTPONED: Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xingxing Wang – Chinese Policy Toward North Korea
Regrettably, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date. Speaker: 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 Over the last decade, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring John Haigh
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 John 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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Hanming Fang – Population Aging, Pension System, and Retirement Income Security in China
Speaker: Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Fang, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics, including topics such as discrimination, social insurance, and welfare reform, health insurance markets, and population aging. In 2008, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding – The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
Speaker: Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye – US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Moderator: William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School Joseph 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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Christopher Carothers – When Autocrats Clean House: Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign and Its Consequences
Speaker: Christopher Carothers, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Corruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes, leading to the widespread perception that autocrats have little incentive or ability to curb government wrongdoing. Yet meaningful anti-corruption efforts by nondemocratic governments are more […]
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?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University Singapore Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is the director of the East …
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanzhong Huang – Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Is ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences Speaker: Yanzhong Huang, Professor and Director, Center for Global Health Studies, Seton Hall University China’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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring John K. Culver: How China’s Catastrophic Success, US Strategic Blunders Fueled Rivalry
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead our blog post on the event: Ex CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule Speaker: John Culver, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Global China […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher – The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean and Founding Director, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University […]