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China at the Crossroads? Reform Challenges Ahead, David Shambaugh

China expert and GWU Prof. Shambaugh surveys the main challenges facing China at present & assesses the steps the government is taking to meet them through new reform policies.

Thursday, April 23, 2015
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Department of Government.

After 35 years of miraculous and dynamic change in its internal development and external relations, China is now facing a number of unprecedented challenges in many realms. Many observers believe that a "crossroads" has been reached--unless fundamental reforms are undertaken national development may stagnate internally and become more assertive externally. In this lecture, internationally recognized China expert David Shambaugh will survey the main challenges facing China at present and he will assess the steps the government is taking to meet them through new reform policies undertaken by the Xi Jinping leadership.

David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He is presently Professor of Political Science & International Affairs and the founding Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.  He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Center for East Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. He was previously Reader in Chinese Politics in the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), where he also served as Editor of The China Quarterly.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He has been selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Senior Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a Distinguished Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar or professor at institutions in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and Russia. Professor Shambaugh is also a frequent commentator in the international media, serves on a number of editorial boards, and has been a consultant to various governments, research institutions, foundations, and private corporations.  As an author, he has written or edited thirty books, including China Goes Global: The Partial Power (2013 and selected by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Bloomberg News as one of the “Best Books of the Year”).

For more information, contact:
Joanne Needham
603-646-2207

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.