Policy Roundtables

Policy Roundtables

As appropriate, the CSCC hosts roundtables of Penn faculty and invited outside experts to address pressing policy issues that increasingly confront contemporary China or US-China relations.

Past Policy Roundtables



2019

Technology Issues in US-China Relations

Professor Zhou Hanhua, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Samm Sacks, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Cohen, UC Berkeley School of Law; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania.
- Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

Zhou Hanhua is a professor of law and…



2019

Roundtable on US-China Relations and Taiwan Issues

Xiamen University Delegation
- CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.



2019

The Hong Kong Protests: A Roundtable Discussion

Michael Davis, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University; Victoria Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Norte Dame; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Avery Goldstein, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations.
- Perry World House, Social Policy Lab, 3803 Locust Walk



2018

China and the Environment: Challenges at Home and Agendas Abroad

FPRI Panel Discussion
FPRI Library, 1528 Walnut Street, Ste. 610, Philadelphia, PA, 19102

Terry Cooke, Founder and Executive Director, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, and Senior Fellow, FPRI; author of Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy.



2018

End of China's One-Child Policy

Feinian Chen,Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland; Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill; Feng Wang, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Stiteler Hall B21

In October 2015, China announced the plans to abolish the one-child policy which had restricted the majority of Chinese families to only one child for the last 35 years. All Chinese couples are now allowed to have…



2017

The 19th CCP Congress and Elite Politics

Policy Roundtable
Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University;  Joseph Fewsmith III, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Damien Ma, Fellow and Associate Director, Paulson Institute.
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall

In October 2017, the Chinese Communist Party held its 19th Congress. The Congress named Xi Jinping to the Party’s top post for a second 5-year term, selected a Politburo and a seven-member Politburo Standing…



2017

Law in Polarised Societies: Hong Kong and China

Michael Hor, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Simon Young, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Fu Hualing, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Sun Haochen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Silverman 240A, Penn Law School

Twenty years ago, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule under an arrangement that promised “one country, two systems.”  Today, the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China are often contentious, and a source of…



2017

China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era

Chas Freeman, Career US Diplomat; Richard Bush, Senior Fellow, Brooking Institution; Shelley Rigger, Professor of Political Science, Davidson College; Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

In 2016 Tsai Ing-wen, candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was elected President of Taiwan. Following eight years under a Kuomintang (KMT) president who had actively promoted closer relations…



2016

China and the South China Sea Disputes: Recent Developments and Prospects

Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Peter Dutton, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College; Bonnie Glaser, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic & International Studies; Michael McDevitt, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Center for Naval Analyses; Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT.  
Stiteler Hall B26, 208 S. 37th Street



2016

Bending the Arc of Chinese History: The Cultural Revolution’s Unexpected Legacy

Andrew Walder, Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Stanford University; Guobin Yang, Associate Professor of Sociology and Communication, University of Pennsylvania
CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

In the decades since its end, the Cultural Revolution has never been forgotten in China. But it is remembered selectively, and what is remembered depends on who does the remembering and when and is highly contested.…