Events

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 States

Read 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 Hub; Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and […]

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 States

In 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 In conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University How China is Winning the Race for Clean Energy Technology With the […]

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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Read 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 Zoom

Speaker: 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 States

Speaker: 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 States

Speaker: 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 […]