Abstract:
< em> At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party\, Xi Jinping made it clear that he would lead China into a new era and\, by imp lication\, put an end to the Dengist period of ‘opening up and reform’ as w ell as ‘hiding capabilities and bidding for time’. This talk starts with t he premise that Xi is committed to usher in a new era. Whether China will take a completely new approach to relations with Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Japan \, and the Korean Peninsula in the short to medium term will be the focus o f the talk.
About the speaker:
Steve Tsang is Professor of Chin ese Studies and Director of the China Institute\, SOAS Uni versity of London. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Chatham House\, an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College at Oxford\, and a Guest Professor a t Tongji University in Shanghai. He regularly contributes to public debate s on different aspects of issues related to the politics\, history\, foreig n policy\, security and development of the People’s Republic of China\, Tai wan\, Hong Kong and East Asia more generally. He has a broad area of resea rch interest and has published extensively\, including 18 books\, of which the most recent two are Taiwan’s Impact on China (Palgrave\, 2017) and Chin a in the Xi Jinping Era (Palgrave\, 2016). He is known in particular for i ntroducing the concept of ‘consultative Leninism’ as an analytical framewor k to understand the structure and nature of politics in contemporary China.
