BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Foreign Correspondents' Club of China - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Foreign Correspondents' Club of China X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fccchina.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Foreign Correspondents' Club of China REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20240213T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20240213T110000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20240207T055202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T055202Z UID:17383-1707818400-1707822000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Where to for North Korea in 2024? DESCRIPTION:North Korean experts Chad O’Carroll and Colin Zeirko will help Club members understand what to expect for the Korean Peninsula in 2024 and calibrate the various different scenarios and hypotheses that have been advanced recently about the possibility of conflict. \nChad O’Carroll is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Korea Risk Group. He is a respected journalist and analyst with specializations in North Korea and geopolitical risk on the peninsula. In addition to his responsibilities as Chief Executive of Korea Risk Group\, O’Carroll is a regular contributor to NK Pro\, Korea Pro and NK News. Furthermore\, he manages several Korea Risk Group consulting projects and provides regular input to a range of clients. \nColin Zwirko is Korea Risk Group’s Senior Analytic Correspondent. He leads open-source intelligence collection and analysis efforts\, publishing regular analyses on a range of subjects including military/diplomatic affairs\, DPRK infrastructure\, and trade issues.Furthermore\, he is a satellite imagery specialist and produces industry-leading material in this area. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-where-to-for-north-korea-in-2024/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231219T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231219T113000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231211T052800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T104221Z UID:17085-1702980000-1702985400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Is China’s economy in crisis? Where is the world’s second-largest economy heading? By Wang Tao DESCRIPTION:News about the Chinese economy isn’t getting any better. The housing crisis is only getting\nworse\, consumers don’t spend as the government hoped for\, and exports are still sluggish.\nFurthermore\, there seems to be no coherent strategy about how to solve the local\ngovernment debt problem. On December 5 th rating agency Moody’s downgraded China’s\ncredit from stable to negative.\nWang Tao will give an introduction to her new book “Making Sense of China’s Economy” and\nhelp us to shed light on the economic prospects for 2024. \nAbout our speaker: Wang Tao is one of the most respected experts on the Chinese economy. She currently\nserves as managing director\, chief China economist and head of Asia economic research at\nUBS in Hong Kong. From 1997 to 2006 Tao worked at the IMF in Washington D.C. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-china-in-crisis-mode-where-is-the-worlds-second-largest-economy-heading-by-wang-tao/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231121T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231121T113000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231117T015224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T013057Z UID:16755-1700560800-1700566200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Laughter\, Tea\, and People to People Relations in the Age of the Internet DESCRIPTION:Jesse Appell came to China as a Fulbright scholar\, apprenticing to Master Xiangsheng performer Ding Guangquan and becoming a mainstay of the Chinese comedy community. He has written and performed on Chinese comedy shows and has 2 million followers in China and almost 1 million abroad. Jesse will share some of his thoughts on the nature of comedy in China\, the role of the Internet in sharing culture\, and his new adventures starting one of America’s fastest-growing specialty tea companies. \nAbout the Speaker: Jesse Appell 艾杰西 is a bilingual comedian and creator with over 3 million followers on platforms around the world. A disciple of Master Xiangsheng performer Ding Guangquan\, he performs Chinese and English comedy online and live around the world. He is also the founder of Jesse’s Teahouse\, an online tea shop with some of the best tea you can buy outside of China. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-laughter-tea-and-people-to-people-relations-in-the-age-of-the-internet/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231109T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231109T113000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231106T020750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T020750Z UID:16684-1699524000-1699529400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Decoding Chinese Elite Politics by Joseph Torigian DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 9th\, for Decoding Chinese Elite Politics: a talk from the renowned scholar of elite Chinese politics\, Joseph Torigian. Torigian is an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington\, DC. \nIn this talk\, he will provide an overview of what outside observers have gotten right and wrong about Chinese elite politics and why. \nTorigian studies the politics of authoritarian regimes with a specific focus on elite power struggles\, civil-military relations\, and grand strategy. His scholarship focuses on Russia and China and he is working on a much anticipated biography of Xi Zhongxun\, father of Xi Jinping. He has pursued his research at Princeton-Harvard’s China and the World Program; Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies; the Higher School of Economics in Moscow as well as Fudan University. He has a PhD from MIT and BA from University of Michigan. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-decoding-chinese-elite-politics-by-joseph-torigian/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231107T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230922T080604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231103T073922Z UID:16190-1699372800-1699378200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Event. On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China by Margaret Hillenbrand DESCRIPTION:On the Edge is highly interdisciplinary\, fusing digital media\, art history\, literary criticism\, and performance studies with citizenship\, protest\, and labor studies. It makes both the distinctive Chinese experience and the vital role of culture central to global understandings of how entrenched insecurity and civic jeopardy fray the bonds of the social contract. \nExamining the volatile aesthetic forms that embody stifled social tensions and surging anxiety over zombie citizenship\, Hillenbrand traces how people use culture to vent taboo feelings of rage\, resentment\, distrust\, and disdain in scenarios rife with cross-class antagonism. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand is a professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at the University of Oxford. Her previous books include Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (2020). URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-on-the-edge-feeling-precarious-in-china-by-margaret-hillenbrand/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231101T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231101T100000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231024T115840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T023253Z UID:16498-1698829200-1698832800@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: What’s Next for US-China Relations? by Jude Blanchette DESCRIPTION:A talk by Jude Blanchette\, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The talk will focus on: the upcoming Xi-Biden meeting at APEC\, Taiwan relations\, and then the upcoming US presidential election season and what it means for short- and near-term calculations for Washington and Beijing. \nJude was formerly with the Conference Board in Beijing\, where he researched China’s political environment with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party of China and its impact on foreign companies and investors\,  and prior to that at UCSD’s 21st Century China Center. Jude is widely published and many of you will have listened\, read or spoken to him on China in recent years. He has an M.A. in modern Chinese studies from Oxford\, and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University\, Maryland. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-whats-next-for-us-china-relations-by-jude-blanchette/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231025T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231025T203000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231002T041923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T061830Z UID:16263-1698260400-1698265800@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future DESCRIPTION:The past is a battleground in many countries\, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China\, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss\, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism’s triumph. The Chinese Communist Party builds on these ideas to whitewash its misdeeds and glorify its rule. Join us for a talk with Ian Johnson on his new book\, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future\, where he describes how some of China’s best-known writers\, filmmakers\, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.\nAbout our speaker:\nIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer\, researcher\, and senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Johnson has lived in China for more than 20 years and has been following the country since first going there as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985. He worked as a newspaper correspondent in China from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore’s The Sun\, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal. In 2009\, Johnson returned to China\, living there until 2020 when he was expelled as part of worsening tensions between China and the United States. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-chinas-underground-historians-and-their-battle-for-the-future/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231017T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231017T113000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231010T041932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T021413Z UID:16331-1697536800-1697542200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online event: Belt and Road: Where are we 10 years on? by Christoph Nedopil DESCRIPTION:Next week China holds its 3rd Belt and Road Forum\, celebrating the initiative’s 10th anniversary. We take this as an opportunity to have a closer look at China’s huge infrastructure project together with the economist and former FCCC member Christoph Nedopil.  \nAbout the speaker: Christoph Nedopil is the director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a Professor at Griffith University. He is also Visiting Professor and the Acting Director of the Green Finance & Development Center at Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University in Shanghai\, as well as a Visiting Faculty at Singapore Management University. Previously\, he was the Founding Director of the Green Belt and Road Initiative Center and a faculty at Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-belt-and-road-where-are-we-10-years-on-by-christoph-nedopil/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231006T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231006T173000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20231002T062940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T062940Z UID:16268-1696608000-1696613400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Event: Italy’s exit from the BRI by Alessia A. Amighini DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, when the Italian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, Italy was – and still is – the only member of the G7 to do so. Four years later Italy’s Belt and Road romance is coming to an end. The current Italian government does not consider its BRI membership to have sufficiently benefitted its economy and wants to exit BRI. This talk is the best preparation for all journalists who have to cover the BRI summit in mid-October. We will talk with Italian economist Alessia A. Amighini about what Italy hoped to gain from joining BRI\, why the government no longer wants to be a part of it today and what an Italian exit means for BRI. \nAbout our speaker: Alessia A. Amighini is Co-Head of the Asia Centre and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)\, Italy’s oldest think tank. Furthermore she is a non-resident fellow at Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Piemonte Orientale. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-italys-exit-from-the-bri-by-alessia-a-amighini/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230922T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230922T113000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230919T110312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230921T034243Z UID:16151-1695376800-1695382200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Event: Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology DESCRIPTION:The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the  United States\, China\, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies\, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. Join us for a discussion with Professor Bradford on her new book\, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology\, where she explores a rivalry that will shape the world in the decades to come. \nAbout our speaker:\nAnu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. She is an expert on international trade law\, European Union law\, digital regulation\, and comparative and international antitrust law. Bradford is the author of “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World”\, which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-digital-empires-the-global-battle-to-regulate-technology/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230614T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230614T153000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230609T055052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T065850Z UID:15794-1686751200-1686756600@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Event: New FCC China cybersecurity guide DESCRIPTION:Working as a China correspondent means dealing with a very high threat environment for digital attacks and surveillance. The Chinese government has wide-ranging capabilities\, both documented and theorised\, and by the nature of your job\, you are a high value target. \nThe FCCC has put together a presentation which aims to teach you how to mitigate those threats as much as possible\, and keep your data safe\, updating our previous guide from 2017. This is now available on our website\, click here or go to Members Area > Reporters Guide > Cyber Security Support for China Correspondents. \nPlease join us at 2pm on June 14 for an online discussion of the new guide\, to go through it and share feedback and best practices. This discussion is limited to correspondents only for security reasons. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-new-fcc-china-cybersecurity-guide/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230517T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230517T163000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230505T090859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T082022Z UID:15488-1684335600-1684341000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: How Chinese Citizens Currently View the World and its Implications for Global Actors by Reza Hasmath DESCRIPTION:This talk provides a candid account of how the Chinese citizenry currently thinks about other nations\, and their relationship with China. It draws upon findings from the first iteration of the Chinese Citizens’ Global Perception Survey (CCGPS) conducted by the speaker in the first quarter of 2023. CCGPS 2023 is a national\, representative survey looking at mainland Chinese citizens’ perspectives on China’s current relations with global actors\, including\, Australia\, Canada\, EU\, France\, Germany\, India\, Japan\, Russia\, UK and USA. The talk will focus on discussing the major findings\, and potential policy implications\, pertaining to Chinese citizens’ (1) general global perception (e.g. trust in global partners\, perceived importance of global relationships\, likelihood of future military conflict); (2) views on China’s global roles and engagement (e.g. economic cooperation\, technological/research partnerships); (3) preferences for foreign tourism\, study\, work and emigration; and\, (4) knowledge of global jurisdictions\, and sources of information about global affairs. Suffice it to say\, how Chinese citizens perceive the world will have profound implications for China’s future domestic and international behaviour\, as well as for the global actors that intimately engage with China. \nAbout the Speaker: Reza Hasmath (Ph.D.\, Cambridge) is a Full Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. He has previously held faculty positions at the Universities of Toronto\, Melbourne and Oxford\, and has worked for think-tanks\, consultancies\, development agencies\, and NGOs in USA\, Canada\, Australia\, UK and China. His award-winning research examines how the behaviour of emerging Chinese state and non-state actors potentially affect salient theories\, practices and assumptions in international affairs. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-how-chinese-citizens-currently-view-the-world-and-its-implications-for-global-actors-by-reza-hasmath/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230426T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230426T110000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230419T081501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T091635Z UID:15379-1682503200-1682506800@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC online Talk: Mike Chinoy on the trials and tribulations of foreign correspondents in China\, 1945-2022 DESCRIPTION:Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war\, revolution\, isolation\, internal upheaval\, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language\, culture\, and politics. \nMike Chinoy’s new book\, “Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic\,” tells the story of how foreign reporters (not only Americans\, despite the title) have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic—in their own words. This includes testimony from many legendary correspondents and members of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of China\, including some still active today. \nCovering over seven decades\, Chinoy’s book offers remarkable insights into how journalism has been and is done in China\, as well as the “near constant struggle” faced by correspondents to “test the boundaries\, challenge the restrictions on coverage at the heart of the com- munist system\, and explore parts of Chinese society that had long been off- limits. All the while\, the Communist Party sought to discourage or prevent them from doing so.” \n*About our speaker:* Mike Chinoy spent twenty-four years as a foreign correspondent for CNN\, serving as the network’s first Beijing bureau chief and senior Asia correspondent. He is the author of multiple books on China and North Korea\, as well as a biography of human rights lawyer and activist Kevin Boyle. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-mike-chinoy-on-the-trials-and-tribulations-of-foreign-correspondents-in-china-1945-2022/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230418T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230418T163000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230410T115159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T091713Z UID:15313-1681830000-1681835400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Event. After von der Leyen\, Macron and Baerbock: exactly where are EU-China relations? DESCRIPTION:Traffic on the Airport Expressway in Beijing has been worse than usual recently\, as a procession of foreign dignitaries have visited the capital\, including the Spanish and French premiers\, as well as the President of the European Commission. Join Merics (Mercator Institute for China Studies) analysts Francesca Ghiretti and Greg Stec as they discuss what can be drawn from these visits on the current state of the various relationships that exist between the EU and China and potential future directions for those relationships. Both Ghiretti and Stec are based in Merics’ Brussels office where they focus on EU-China relations. \n  URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-event-merics/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230412T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230412T163000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230403T005302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T060204Z UID:15261-1681311600-1681317000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: The transatlantic view of China by Agatha Kratz DESCRIPTION:Agatha will provide her view on the current state of EU-China relations\, potential for transatlantic alignment on China issues\, and evolutions in European business appetite in the China market. \nAbout the Speaker: Agatha Kratz is a Director at Rhodium Group. She heads Rhodium’s China corporate advisory team\, as well as Rhodium’s research on European Union-China relations and China’s economic statecraft. She also contributes to Rhodium work on China’s global investment\, industrial policy and technology aspirations. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-the-transatlantic-view-of-china-by-agatha-kratz/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230405T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230405T103000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230331T152017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T035245Z UID:15237-1680685200-1680690600@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Deny\, Deflect\, Deter: Countering China's Economic Coercion DESCRIPTION:Matt Reynolds\, a fellow in the Economics Program of the Center for Strategic & International Studies\, and Matthew Goodman\, a Senior Vice President at the Center\, recently co-authored a paper on the ways in which China attempts to exert influence through economic coercion. Hear about their analysis of eight recent cases from Japan\, Norway\, the Philippines\, Mongolia\, South Korea\, Australia\, Canada\, and Lithuania and learn about why it is that they believe that a common characteristic across all of these cases is that they were not successful in achieving China’s aims. \nListen to the counterstrategy Matthew and Matt recommend based around pre-emptive policies that would Deny China leverage and measures that would offer support to victims of economic coercion to Deflect China’s attacks. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-on-csis-report-deny-deflect-deter-countering-chinas-economic-coercion/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230217T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230217T100000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230130T030151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T030151Z UID:14706-1676624400-1676628000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: China\, Taiwan\, and Cross-Strait Tensions by Dr. Lin Ying-Yu DESCRIPTION:China conducted a long series of live-fire military drills after former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year. With the current US House Speaker potentially planning another trip to Taiwan this spring\, Dr. Ling examines the Chinese PLA’s current capabilities. How could the PLA project that strength across the Taiwan Strait? How is Taiwan preparing its defense in response? \nAbout our speaker: Dr. Lin Ying-Yu is an assistant professor at Tamkang University in New Taipei\, Taiwan. His research interests include the development of PLA capabilities and cyber security issues. He obtained his PhD from Tamkang University at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-china-taiwan-and-cross-strait-tensions-by-dr-lin-ying-yu/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230209T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230130T024604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T024604Z UID:14703-1675962000-1675965600@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: China’s Covid crisis: Is the worst behind us or a second wave imminent? by Benjamin Cowling DESCRIPTION:After the Chinese government in December dropped all Covid-restrictions the virus spread like wildfire – faster than many experts had predicted. Up to one billion people might have been infected already. Close to one million people might have died from or with Covid. But these are only rough estimates as the government doesn’t release ana reliable figures. Now\, after the first wave has subsided some experts expect a second wave for spring.\nBy Benjamin Cowling \nAbout our speaker: Professor Benjamin Cowling joined the School of Public Health (SPH) at Hong Kong University in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong\, he graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2003 and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London (UK). Professor Cowling has been the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2013. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-chinas-covid-crisis-is-the-worst-behind-us-or-a-second-wave-imminent-by-benjamin-cowling/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230202T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20230130T024220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T043137Z UID:14700-1675357200-1675360800@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: The US-China relationship in the Year of the Rabbit by William Klein DESCRIPTION:US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to make a short\, in-person trip to the PRC in early February – the highest-ranking US government officer to visit Beijing since the start of the global Covid pandemic. Blinken will be building on a slight rapprochman brokered on the sidelines of the G20 meeting last November — but are the prospects of a continued thawing in the bilateral relationship based on hope rather than substantive change? How might China and the US be planning for Blinken’s visit?\n\nAbout the speaker: William Klein is a Consulting Partner in the Berlin office of FGS Global’s Government Affairs\, Policy & Advocacy Division. Prior to joining the firm\, he spent a total of over 20 years in the diplomatic service of the United States\, including serving as  Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Counsellor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing\, head of the Political Section of the American Institute in Taiwan\, and Acting and Deputy Director of the China Desk at the U.S. State Department.  Bill studied Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin and History and Mass Communication at the University of Utah. He is also a non-resident senior associate at the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\, DC\, and a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-the-us-china-relationship-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit-by-william-klein/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221130T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221130T110000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20221125T105740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221125T105740Z UID:14114-1669802400-1669806000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Chip War: The US-China Rivalry over Semiconductors DESCRIPTION: Why are semiconductors a critical area of contestation between China and the United States? Today\, China spends as much money importing chips as it does importing oil\, while the U.S. is trying to cut off access to the most advanced chips and chipmaking tools. Both countries’ militaries realize that the future of military power will depend on access to the most advanced chips. \nAbout our speaker: Chris Miller is associate professor at the Fletcher School and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology  (Scribner\, 2022). URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-chip-war-the-us-china-rivalry-over-semiconductors/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221110T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221110T100000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20221104T111142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T111142Z UID:14026-1668070800-1668074400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: The reform and opening era is over. What comes next? DESCRIPTION:With the conclusion of the 20th Party Congress\, it is more clear than ever that the “reform and opening” era is now over. All of the core political\, economic\, and social aspects of the reform and opening policies have been rolled back or abandoned altogether. Where does that leave the CCP\, and where is it going next? \nAbout our speaker: Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. His most recent book is The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press\, 2021). URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-the-reform-and-opening-era-is-over-what-comes-next/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221012T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221012T190000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20221010T080704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T080735Z UID:13872-1665597600-1665601200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: The Party: a talk with Richard McGregor DESCRIPTION:On the eve of the 20th National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party\, Richard McGregor will share his thoughts and questions on China’s biggest political event. \nAbout our speaker: Richard McGregor is a Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute\, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank\, in Sydney. A former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times\, he is the author of numerous books on East Asia\, including “The Party” (2010)\, on the inner-workings of the Chinese Communist Party\, and “Xi Jinping: The Backlash” (2019). URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-the-party-a-talk-with-richard-mcgregor/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221011T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221011T160000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220926T095658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T080003Z UID:13631-1665500400-1665504000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Germany: From partner to rival? by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges DESCRIPTION:Germany’s growing dependence on the Chinese economy by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges \nGermany’s leading car manufacturer Volkswagen sells roughly half of its cars to Chinese customers.\nAnd it’s not the only company that has put big bets on China. No other European economy is as\ndependent on China as is Germany. At the same time the new German government\, dominated by\nthe Social Democrats and the Greens\, seems to embark on a new course towards China. What does\nthis mean for the future of German-China relations? \nStefan Aust and Adrian Geiges recently published their biography “Xi Jinping – The most powerful\nman in the world”. Aust and Geiges will discuss the growing complexity of the relationship between\nEurope’s biggest economy and China as well as their new book. \nAbout our speakers: Stefan Aust is the former editor-in-chief of Germany’s leading news magazine\nDer Spiegel and now the publisher of the daily newspaper Welt. He is the author of numerous\nbestselling books including The Baader-Meinhof Complex. The movie based on this book got a\nnomination as Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.\nAdrian Geiges has been the long-standing Beijing correspondent of the weekly news magazine Stern\nand a member of the Foreign Correspondents‘ Club of China in this time. Earlier as the Moscow\ncorrespondent of Spiegel TV he covered the military coup against Gorbachev\, the end of the Soviet\nUnion and the beginning of the new Russia. He also worked as a correspondent in New York and Rio\nde Janeiro. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-germany-from-partner-to-rival-by-stefan-aust-and-adrian-geiges/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221007T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221007T090000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220926T095109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T015616Z UID:13627-1665129600-1665133200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Xi Jinping's big moment: The 20th Party Congress and what comes next by Christopher K. Johnson DESCRIPTION:Christopher K. Johnson is President and CEO of China Strategies Group\, a political risk consulting firm\, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Centre for China Analysis. \nChris spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. Government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities. He worked as a senior China analyst at the CIA\, where he chronicled China’s dynamic political and economic transformation\, the development of its robust military modernization program\, and Beijing’s resurgence as a regional and global power. \nIn a recent Asia Society report\, Chris examined Xi Jinping’s supposed “annus horribilis\,” and speculation Xi is facing political difficulties at home that could hamstring or even disrupt his plan to remain China’s top leader after the 20th Party Congress later this year. \n“Such narratives rest on a series of faulty assumptions\,” Chris argues\, adding “Xi appears to be hurtling toward a substantial victory at the 20th Party Congress. The exact titles and other laureates that he will receive at the conclave still are unknown\, but there is little doubt that he will remain China’s top leader\, in whatever capacity\, for the foreseeable future.” \nIn this FCCC talk\, Chris will explain why and how Xi Jinping is in such a position of strength\, and what we can expect from the upcoming Party Congress. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-xi-jinpings-big-moment-the-20th-party-congress-and-what-comes-next-by-christopher-k-johnson/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220930T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220930T170000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220926T100701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T080152Z UID:13634-1664553600-1664557200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - A talk with Ai Weiwei DESCRIPTION:One of the world’s most recognizable Chinese artists\, Ai Weiwei joins us for a talk about his recently published memoir and his views on art\, politics and the future of China. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-a-talk-with-ai-weiwei/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fccchina.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ai-Weiwei-1000-Years-of-Joys-and-Sorrows-Art-Gallery-of-Ontario.png ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220906T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220906T160000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220831T050804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T050804Z UID:13443-1662476400-1662480000@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire DESCRIPTION:China’s evolving relations with Central Asia\nCentral Asia has a habit of being a place where China first floats its major foreign policy ideas. The upcoming SCO Heads of State Summit in Tashkent may be Xi Jinping’s first trip outside the country since COVID\, while the region was where he first announced the Belt and Road Initiative. Yet\, China’s approach to the region is heavily shaped by China’s policies in Xinjiang\, and the reality of being a regional neighbourhood where violence has a habit of breaking out. Central Asia is where China and Russia meet\, and the site of one of the great underexplored geopolitical shifts of the past few years. Raffaello Pantucci\, co-author of the recently published Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire\, will discuss his new book which draws on over a decade’s research and travel around the Eurasian heartland. \nAbout our speaker: Raffaello Pantucci is Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School in Singapore and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. He is the co-author of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire (Oxford University Press\, 2022) URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-sinostan-chinas-inadvertent-empire/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220811T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220811T160000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220801T112306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220805T050504Z UID:13147-1660230000-1660233600@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: Confucianism as part of Xi's "Great rejuvenation of China" by Jyrki Kallio DESCRIPTION:Mao Zedong banned Confucianism after the CCP seized power in mainland China in 1949. But the school of thought has returned slowly to the mainland with the opening of the country during the 1980s. After taking office\, President Xi Jinping has openly praised the philosophy and visited the birthplace of Confucius in Shandong. \nConfucianism has been an integral part of Eastern Asian thought for over two thousand years. The core of Confucianism is reciprocity: emphasizing honor\, honesty\, loyalty and thoughtfulness. \nOur guest is eminent sinologist Jyrki Kallio from Helsinki\, Finland. He has studied and translated classical works of Confucianism in-depth and has a PhD in Chinese Society studies. \nWhat is Confucianism and what role does it play in Xi Jinping’s vision of the great rejuvenation of China? Why is Xi Jinping endorsing this school of thought? How does Confucianism mesh with authoritarianism and China’s Communist system? \nJoin us for a conversation with Jyrki Kallio on Thursday 11 August at 3 pm Beijing time. \nAbout the speaker: Jyrki Kallio is Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs\, and holds the Title of Docent (venia docendi) in International Relations and Chinese Studies at the University of Lapland. His research foci include Chinese political culture and foreign policy\, and regional issues in East Asia. He has a special interest in the instrumentalization of traditional schools of thought in East Asian politics\, and in addition to his research\, has translated classical Chinese philosophy and prose. His latest book (March 2022) is a compilation of selected excerpts both from Confucian classics and by critical Confucians in the imperial era. Previously\, he served the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland as diplomat. He holds degrees of MSocSc (International Relations) and PhD (Chinese Society Studies). URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-confucianism-as-part-of-xis-great-rejuvenation-of-china-by-jyrki-kallio/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220627T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220627T170000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220617T053359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T055417Z UID:13008-1656345600-1656349200@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Chris Patten - The Hong Kong Diaries DESCRIPTION:The diaries of Lord Patten\, the last British Governor of Hong Kong\, will be published on June 21st and he will speak to the FCCC in the week before the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong about his experiences. \nIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor\, to try to prepare it not – as other British colonies over the decades – for independence\, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese\, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept a diary\, which gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese\, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. \nChris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. When MP for Bath (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development\, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 until 1997 and European Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 until 2004. The Observer has described him as ‘the best Tory Prime Minister we never had’. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-chris-patten-the-hong-kong-diaries/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fccchina.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/patten.png ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220623T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220623T120000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220615T030209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220620T234414Z UID:12984-1655982000-1655985600@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Is BRICS still relevant? What’s next for the group and for China-India relations by Shyam Saran DESCRIPTION:The 14th BRICS Summit is set to be held on June 23-24 under China’s chairmanship. This year\, the war in Ukraine has added a new layer of uncertainty to the ongoing debate around the viability and relevance of the group of major emerging economies composed of Brazil\, Russia\, India\, China and South Africa. Shyam Saran\, former India’s Foreign Secretary and a top expert on China and strategic affairs\, will share his perspective on what lies ahead for the BRICS and present the conclusions of his latest book\, “How China sees India and the World”\, in which he unpacks the complexities of Indo-China relations. \nAbout our speaker: Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India\, has served as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change and as Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-is-brics-still-relevant-whats-next-for-the-group-and-for-china-india-relations-by-shyam-saran/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fccchina.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Cover-How-China-Sees-India-and-the-World.png ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220616T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220616T103000 DTSTAMP:20260505T223616 CREATED:20220608T062217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T065807Z UID:12943-1655371800-1655375400@fccchina.org SUMMARY:FCCC Talk: Xi Jinping: Political Career\, Governance\, and Leadership\, 1953-2018 DESCRIPTION:A new book by Alfred L. Chan\nThis book is the first comprehensive exploration of all episodes of Xi Jinping’s life history and his political career\, begun at age 17. The author discusses all major issues including Xi’s legitimacy building\, consolidation of power\, ideological redefinition\, party rectification\, anti-corruption efforts\, and control of dissent up until 2018. He explores reforms in the economy\, social policy\, the judiciary\, military\, and foreign relations in the same period. Xi’s political life mirrors the vicissitudes of the Maoist and reform eras\, and sheds light on the regime’s hopes and fears\, strengths and weaknesses\, and the changing zeitgeist of the times. \nAbout our speaker:  Alfred L. Chan is a Professor Emeritus at Huron University College\, University of Western Ontario\, Canada\, and a Research Associate with the Asian Institute at the Munk Centre for Global Affairs and Public Policy\, University of Toronto. A political scientist and a China expert\, he has taught at Carleton University\, McGill University\, and Calgary University. He has published in leading international journals on China such as The China Quarterly\, The China Journal\, Studies on Contemporary China\, and Pacific Affairs. He is also the author of Mao’s Crusade. URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-xi-jinping-political-career-governance-and-leadership-1953-2018/ LOCATION:Google Meet CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR