CCG Global Dialogue: Recent Episodes
Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
The CCG Global Dialogue Podcast seeks to engage global thought leaders on topics concerning the current situation and dilemmas of globalization and China’s role in it. These extended discussions are hosted by Dr. Henry Wang Huiyao, president of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
In the midst of current geopolitical uncertainties, US-China economic cooperation is facing great challenges. It is in this context that CCG partnered with the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference to invite:
Henry Huiyao Wang, CCG President
Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard
Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong
to participate in an in-depth dialogue that focuses on how to maintain a fair and sustainable trade relationship between the US and China, how to ensure stability in financial markets, and how to create more opportunities for cooperation in the future.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s ice-breaking trip to China followed by the signing of the Shanghai Communique. 50 years on, the bilateral relationship is fraught with tensions. The recent breathtaking development in Ukraine is making the strategic competition even more complex with profound implications for the international order.
In this extraordinary time, how can we order the future of great power relations into perspective? How will the US-China relations move forward in the context of important political events in both countries? While we look back in history, is “re-icebreaking” between the world’s two largest economies possible in the future?
On March 3rd, CCG hosted another episode of Global Dialogue in partnership with the China Conference of Harvard Kennedy School, featuring Dr. Wang Huiyao, founder and president of CCG, and Dr. Graham Allison, the founding dean of Harvard Kennedy School, best known in China for his notion of “Thucydides Trap” in public debates about US-China competition.
Despite weeks of heightening tensions and warnings, Russia’s advance into Ukraine on 22 February 2022 came as a shock to the world. As Russian military pushes deeper into Ukraine, the implications of this conflict are likely to cause a ripple effect across the region and beyond. As a salvo of sanctions are being calibrated against Kremlin, a broad range of speculations about Vladimir Putin’s moves, responses of Joe Biden and his NATO partners, and China’s reaction have surfaced.
As the crisis unfolds and public debates stand more divided than ever and disinformation on social media abounds, how can we make sense of this crisis and its far-reaching implications for the future of the world order? How is this development going to impact geopolitical faut lines that are already complex and precarious? In this episode of CCG Global Dialogue, we invited two experts with different and imperative perspectives to discuss the causes and consequences of the Ukraine Crisis.
Speakers:
Victor Gao, Vice President, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
Piet Steel, President, Europe-Asia Center
Moderator:
Zoon Ahmed, Research Fellow, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
As we enter into the new year, one cannot help but wonder where the global economy is headed in 2022. As attention is drawn to expected global impact of Fed's monetary policy, and the world undergoes profound restructuring in numerous areas such as supply chains, digitalization and decarbonization, what trends will be shaping economic development in 2022 and beyond? Also, in the midst of incessant and escalated conflicts between the US and China, this so-called most important bilateral relationship in the world has been put under extreme pressure.
On Jan 25/26th, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) was pleased hosting a fireside chat between President Emeritus of Harvard University Prof. Lawrence H. Summers and CCG President Dr. Wang Huiyao to assess the directions of the world economy and navigating the US-China relations in 2022.
Prof. Summers is a renowned economist who used to serve as US Treasury Secretary for the Clinton administration, Director of the US National Economic Council for the Obama administration, as well as Chief Economist for the World Bank.
The roles of great powers, China, the US, Europe, in an increasingly multipolar world have resulted in complex power dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. With RCEP becoming effective at the start of 2022, the world’s largest trading bloc in history has been formed among a great number of Southeast Asian and Asia-Pacific nations, marking a milestone in the story of a returned Asia.
On Jan. 18, 2022, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is hosting a dialogue between four distinguished guests to offer views from Asia, the US, Europe, and China – Distinguished scholar, diplomat, and Singapore’s leading voice on Asia Prof. Kishore Mahbubani who recently published The Asian 21st Century; a leading Asian expert from Johns Hopkins University SAIS Prof. Kent E. Calder; Prof. Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, and CCG President Wang Huiyao.
In this program, CCG invited Dr. John Hamre, President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), to join a dialogue “Think tanks and American foreign policy” with Henry Huiyao Wang, President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), on the topics including think tanks' role as the “revolving door” and its benefits and drawbacks, US-China think tank exchanges, and takeaways from the recent Biden-Xi virtual summit.
As 2021 is drawing to a close, amid worries about the unknown Omicron variant of coronavirus and rising inflation globally, what does the future hold for the world economy? How will the US and China respond to uncertainties in economic outlook and what are the implications? CCG invited Prof. Stephen S. Roach, Senior Fellow at Yale University and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia to join a dialogue "Changing reality of China-US relations" with Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) on the topics of how the changing relations between China and the US will influence the world and what is the future of China-US bilateral relations and so on.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the BRIC acronym and the 15th anniversary of BRICS cooperation. On Dec 2nd 2021, CCG President, Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, had a dialogue with Lord Jim O’ Neill, former Chairman of Chatham House; Creator of the BRIC Acronym and Mr. Leslie Maasdorp, Vice President and CFO of the New Development Bank in a fireside chat hosted by CCG.
The Global Dialogue series, presented by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), is honored and pleased to feature a fireside chat with Dr. David M. Lampton, a leading China expert and Senior Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Foreign Policy Institute. This program was hosted by CCG president Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang.
Infrastructure, development, and geopolitics often intersect in international relations. In Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press 2020), the vision and implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Southeast Asia are closely examined by David M. Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik. As the historic Laos-China Railway has been set to open next month, what progress can we expect from this infrastructure project in terms of regional integration and economic development? What is the role of infrastructure in great power politics? Can the BRI and G7’s Build Back Better World (B3W) be reviewed through the lens of development cooperation?
The recent virtual meeting between President Biden and President Xi following a joint pledge on climate change at COP26 have sent some positive signals that could pave the way for future cooperation between the two countries. Aside from trade and climate, will development cooperation be an area that merits attention? Given the Biden administration’s focus on infrastructure spending and domestic political dynamics heading into midterm elections next year, what will the future of the bilateral relationship bode?
This episode discusses international trade, China’s accession to the WTO and its upcoming WTO reform, fairer vaccine rollouts, global mobility, US-China trade negotiations and EU-US-China trilateral relations with Wendy Cutler, vice president of Asian Society Policy Institute; former acting deputy USTR and Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organization, president of the Paris Peace Forum.
This episode discusses the dynamics of the China-US relationship as well as issues related to global governance in today’s world with Susan A. Thornton, senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School and former acting assistant secretary of the US State Department for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Ronnie C. Chan, CCG co-chair, chair of Hang Lung Properties Limited and chair emeritus at the Asia Society.
This episode discusses the past, present and future of the China-US relationship with Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE); J. Stapleton Roy, founding director emeritus at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of Wilson Center; John L. Thornton, chair emeritus at the Brookings Institution and co-chair of the Asia Society and Zhu Guangyao, CCG advisor and former Vice Minister of Finance of China.
This episode discusses society, culture and trade in the Song dynasty, the importance of the Silk Road, revelation of globalization 1000 years ago, the significance of Confucianism in the history of East Asia, and challenges facing global governance today such as inequality with Prof. Valerie Hansen, historian, Sinologist and the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
This episode discusses the issue of inequality and impact on society and economy in the US and the rest of the world with Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics and Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, and Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University.
This episode discusses measures that should be undertaken to promote the recovery of the global economy in post-pandemic times, the role that China will play in that process, as well as how China, the US and the EU can overcome their differences and advance the process of globalization with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator and associate editor at the Financial Times.
This episode discusses competition and cooperation between China and the United States in fields such as geopolitics, technology, economics, culture, the pandemic and climate, taking the pulse of China-US relations under the new Biden administration with Prof. Anthony Saich, faculty chair of the China Program at Harvard Kennedy School, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo professor of International Affairs.
This episode discusses the role and influence of soft power in foreign policy, the rise of nationalism in both countries, economic and social co-existence and interdependence, as well as cooperation on important global issues such as climate and trade with Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr, coiner of the concept of “soft power”, University Distinguished Service professor and former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
This episode discusses great power competition in historical perspective, new paradigms to escape the Thucydides Trap, US-China relations after Anchorage and the global war against Covid-19 and climate change with Professor Graham T. Allison, the founding dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides‘ Trap? Professor Li Chen, director of Center for International Security and Strategy at School of International Studies of the Remin University of China, also joined the discussion.
This episode discusses the future of globalization unfold in times of geopolitical upheaval, identity politics, and rapid technological development with Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author, reporter, New York Times columnist, and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
This episode discusses China’s development and international relations in the post-pandemic world with Prof. Kerry Brown, director of the Lau Institute of the King’s College London.