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SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: How long can China keep up its ‘zero Covid’ strategy?
DESCRIPTION:While many countries are cautiously opening their borders and relying on high vaccination rates\, China is one of the few to persist with a ‘zero Covid’ policy. How long can it hold out given the high socioeconomic costs of such a method and the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant? \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Ivan Hung\, Professor in Health Sciences Pedagogy\, Chief of Infectious Diseases Division\, University of Hong Kong. Professor Hung is a dual-specialist in Infectious Disease and Gastroenterology & Hepatology and has published more than 150 international peer reviewed original articles. His research includes vaccines\, innovative treatment of severe influenza and prevention of pneumococcal infection. He is the Board and Founding Member of the World Association for Infectious Diseases and Immunological Disorders.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-how-long-can-china-keep-up-its-zero-covid-strategy/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211209T090000
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SUMMARY:FCCC TALK: China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Polity Press 2021)
DESCRIPTION:The Communist Party’s newest “historical resolution” is a crucial step towards consolidating Xi Jinping’s power and status to equal that of Mao and Deng. In his new book Professor Shambaugh surveys China’s leaders and their times from Mao through Deng Xiaoping\, Jiang Zemin\, Hu Jintao\, and Xi Jinping. He will speak about his book and these Chinese leaders\, and will take questions concerning all of them (not only Xi Jinping). \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: David Shambaugh is Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies\, Political Science & International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Professor Shambaugh has published more than 30 books\, including most recently Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia\, China & the World (both 2020).
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-chinas-leaders-from-mao-to-now-polity-press-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211214T090000
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SUMMARY:FCCC TALK: In the Camps -  A Discussion with Darren Byler
DESCRIPTION:Darren Byler spent years living in Xinjiang and befriending the Uyghur communities there. Soon after leaving the region to continue his doctoral studies\, Chinese authorities began a massive detention and incarceration campaign in the region. Byler became one of the earliest scholars to monitor and analyze the latest crackdown in Xinjiang. He joins the club to explain the matrix of state control and economic incentives which produce and maintain and ongoing police state in the region and his deeply personal connection to the people most deeply affected. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Darren Byler holds a  PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2018. His research focuses on Uyghur dispossession\, infrastructural power and what Byler has termed “terror capitalism”. He teaches anthropology at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, British Columbia. He is the author of two books on Xinjiang: “Terror Capitalism” (2022) and “In The Camps.” (2021). Byler has also helped translate “The Backstreets\,” from the renowned Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-in-the-camps-a-discussion-with-darren-byler/
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