Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations, governments, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy assumptions that would not be taken seriously elsewhere. It’s time to talk about the slow growth era in China. To set the table for that, the structural economic problems that reduce China’s potential growth to 0-2% must be recognized. ...
Rubenstein 414ab (Democracy Lab) + Virtual Via Zoom
Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships between the private sector and the party-state to explain the long history of capitalism and capitalists in China, and discuss what can be gained from comparing China's political economy. Is China like Japan, bound for decades of macroeconomic stagnation, or like Suharto's Indonesia, one economic crisis away from dissolution?
You're invited to join the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG), Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studiesfor a conversation with David Barboza, a correspondent for The New York Times, based in New York.
In 2013, Barboza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting “for his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including...
You're invited to join the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a conversation with The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy. This event will be moderated by Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and is being co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Belfer Center for...
This in-person study group will be held on six Mondays 9:30-10:30am and is designed to engage Harvard Kennedy School degree students to understand China’s historical rise, critical current challenges, and it’s role in the world moving forward. Led by Professors Tony Saich, Rana Mitter and Edward Cunningham, who combined leverage decades of experience working in and with China, the program will also draw on the expertise of a range of HKS faculty, postdoctoral fellows, practitioners and others from business, media, and...
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School invites you to join leading academics and experts focused on the semiconductor industry for a full-day symposium on Monday, September 11th, to discuss challenges and opportunities in this critical sector.
This event is open in person to Harvard ID holders. This event is now at capacity. Please tune in to the livestream of the discussion.
The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies invites you to a book talk with Jérôme Doyon, former Ash Center China Public Policy postdoctoral fellow, current Junior Professor at SciencesPo, author of "Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China." Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, will serve as a respondent.
Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass Ave, Harvard Law School
The U.S.-China relationship is the most important in the world, with decisions affecting the world’s chances for global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. Each country has its own view of what its role, and the other’s role, in the world should be in the 21st...
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the Ash Center and HKS AAPI Caucus invites Harvard-ID holders to a discussion about how the impacts of war, political instability, and poverty over the last several decades have affected many AAPI communities – before and after arriving in the U.S. Specifically, panelists will examine the continued legacy of this historical trauma upon subsequent AAPI generations, as well as how Asian diasporas, migration, and the sociology of Asian America could contribute to...
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the Ash Center invites you to a discussion about the future of energy policy in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Specifically, panelists will examine whether coal use can be curbed in light of the region’s growing demand for energy. Joining us will be Cecilia Springer, Assistant Director of Boston University Global Development Policy Center; David Dapice, Senior Economist for Mainland Southeast Asia at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; and Benny Subianto, Vietnam Program Visiting Fellow at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia....