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This roundtabl e will bring together a group of leading China experts to reflect on the re cent 20th Party Congress and its implications for the future of Chinese politics. Securing an unprecedented third term\, President Xi Jinp ing has consolidated his grip on power\, while signaling a growing emphasis on security\, a shift away from market-oriented reforms\, and a more adver sarial approach to foreign relations. Yet there have also been growing und ercurrents of popular discontent\, amid China’s zero-Covid policy\, heavy-h anded lockdowns\, and slowing economic growth. Does the 20th Pa rty Congress mark a tipping point? How do we understand these changes\, an d what can we expect next from China’s domestic and foreign policy? Join o ur group of experts for a lively discussion of the current state of Chinese politics and its evolving role in the world.
Moderator: Prof. Kristen Hopewell\, University of British Columbia
Speakers:
Kristen Hopewell is Canada Resea rch Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affair s\, Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues\, and Co-Director of th e Centre for Chinese Research at UBC. She is a Wilson China Fellow at the W ilson Center in Washington\, DC. Professor Hopewell is the author of Cl ash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance (Cambridge University Press\, 2020) and Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disr upted the Neoliberal Project (Stanford University Press\, 2016).
Manfred Elfstrom is an Assistant Pro fessor in the Department of Economics\, Philosophy\, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia\, Okanagan. He is the author of W orkers and Change in China: Resistance\, Repression\, Responsiveness ( Cambridge University Press\, 2021). He previously served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations and a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Universi ty’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Before entering a cademia\, he worked in the non-profit world\, supporting workers’ rights an d improved grassroots governance in China.
Diana Fu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto . She is a non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution\, a China fellow a t the Wilson Center\, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Com mittee on US-China Relations. She is author of the award-winning Mobil izing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China (Cambridge U niversity Press\, 2018). She has been elected to the Royal Society of Cana da’s College of New Scholars\, Artists\, and Scientists.
Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University o f Michigan\, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studi es\, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studie s at the Institute for Social Research. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese politics\, including Authoritarian Legality in China: Law\, Workers\, and the State (Cambridge University Press\, 20 17). Professor Gallagher has taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beiji ng and was a Fulbright Research Scholar at East China University of Politic s and Law in Shanghai. She has also been a fellow in the public intellectua ls program of the National Committee on US-China Relations.
H
o-fung Hung is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor
in Political Economy at the Sociology Department and the Paul H Nitze Schoo
l of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. He is
the author of the award-winning Protest with Chinese Characteristics (2011) and The China Boom: Why China Will not Rule the World (2
016)\, both published by Columbia University Press. His publications have b
een translated into seven different languages and received numerous awards.
His analyses of the Chinese political economy and Hong Kong politics have
been featured or cited in The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The Wa
ll Street Journal\, Bloomberg News\, BBC News\, Die Presse (Austria)\, The
Guardian\, Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil)\, The Straits Times (Singapore)\, Xi
nhua Monthly (China)\, People’s Daily (China)\, among other publications. The Centre for Chines
e Research (CCR) at the Institute of Asian Research\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA)\
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