China

  • 2024 Feb 29

    Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner 434ab + Virtual Via Zoom

    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. ...

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  • 2023 Oct 12

    The Past, Present, and Future of State - Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    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?

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  • 2023 Oct 05

    Reporting on China

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Rubenstein 414AB, Harvard Kennedy School

    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. 

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    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...

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  • 2023 Sep 26

    Naval Diplomacy in an Era of Great Power Competition

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Nye ABC (5th Floor Taubman Building) HKS

    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...

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  • 2023 Sep 25

    China Study Student Group: Voices and Analysis from the Field

    9:30am to 10:30am

    Location: 

    Wexner G-02, Harvard Kennedy School

    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...

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  • 2023 Sep 11

    Semiconductors and Geopolitics Symposium: The Future of the Global Semiconductor Industry

    8:30am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    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. 

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  • 2023 Mar 20

    Book Talk - Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner 434 AB, Harvard Kennedy School and Online

    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. 

    Lunch will be served. 

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  • 2022 Nov 17

    The Dreams They Carried: Intergenerational Trauma in AAPI Communities

    3:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    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...

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  • 2022 Nov 15

    Energy Policy in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam: Can Coal be Curbed?

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    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....

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