Digital Technologies and Financial Governance in China's Fin-tech Development

Jing Wang, Assistant Professor of Communication, Tulane University

Leading the global fin-tech market, Chinese fin-tech companies, such as Ant Financial and Tencent Finance are setting paradigms for business innovation and economic development. In the meantime, there has been…

Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations

2018-2019 CSCC Annual Public Lecture

Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Program, UCSD; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1997-2000)

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years since the 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.   The deterioration of…

Roundtable Discussion on US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific Strategy

Walter Douglas, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, US Department of State

Walter Douglas is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy in…

Corporate Concentration and Air Pollution Governance in China

Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

Overall air quality in China has improved steadily since 2011. A little-studied aspect of pollution control in China is that…

Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship

Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast

One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel…

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy

Jie Bai, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Are quid pro quo policies effective in facilitating knowledge transfers to developing countries? We study this question in the context of the Chinese automobile industry where foreign firms are…

Escaping Import Competition and Downstream Tariffs in China

Ann Harrison, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

This research proposes and provides evidence for a new source of gains from trade: Firms invest in product differentiation to escape import competition. In the data and in the model, these investments are associated…

Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

Rongbin Han, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia

The talk will be focusing on the struggles over online expression in China in order to answering the following question: Why has the rise of Internet thus far failed to disrupt the Chinese party-state, as many have…

China and the 'Responsibility to Protect' in International Law

Professor James Li, Tsinghua University Law School

Professor Li Zhaojie (James Li) received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D.…

Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins

Scott Moore, Ph.D., Director, Penn Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania

Scott Moore offers the first book-length treatment of the distinctive problem of subnational…