China’s Futures: Chinese Elites on China’s Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
with Daniel Lynch, Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California

Wednesday October 28, 2015
Wooden Box Cafe, 9 Qinghai Lu
[19:15] Event begins

Co-hosted with the Hopkins China Forum

This year it became obvious even to optimists that China’s economy is perched on the edge of a precipice. China’s leadership can either re-energize growth by following through on promises to deepen reform, or else face years of sluggish growth — partly because the economic downturn is coinciding with the reduction in the size of China’s workforce and aging of its population. At the same time, China has pursued a new assertiveness in its foreign policy in Asia-Pacific, and its One Belt Old Road initiative will involve hundreds of billions of USD in spending across Eurasia. Why does the leadership project such a high degree of confidence on the world stage even as the basis of China’s rise — its economic development — is under such severe threat? Tonight’s speaker will address this puzzle in the course of discussing his new book China’s Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. After offering his own observations, he will invite attendees to join together in thinking through the implications of these difficult-to-read developments: what they suggest about where China and its rise might be headed from here.

Daniel Lynch is currently an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and is a member of the Executive Committee at theUSC U.S.-China Institute. Lynch is the author of three books on China: China’s Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy (2015), Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to Global Culture in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan (2006), After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and Thought Work in Reformed China (1999). He has also published many scholarly articles in such journals as China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, and Asian Survey. Lynch earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Event Location: Wooden Box Cafe, 9 Qinghai Lu (just to the South of Nanjing West Road) 青海路 9 号, 近南京西路, 地铁二号线南京西路站​

This event is co-sponsored with the Hopkins China Forum, whose events are organized under the auspices of The Johns Hopkins University and its affiliated alumni associations worldwide. For more information on Hopkins events in Shanghai, please contact Frank Tsai at the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association – Shanghai at editor@shanghai-review.org.