The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business are pleased to announce the Sixteenth Annual N.T Wang Distinguished Lecture “Slow Tech Dragon: A Balanced Assessment of China's Economic Trajectory” featuring Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and moderated by Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program, Columbia University.
China is increasingly viewed as an emerging high-tech superpower yet is simultaneously portrayed as being on the verge of an economic crisis. Drawing on fieldwork and quantitative data, this presentation aims to explain how these conflicting assessments can be productively integrated into a unified picture of China's current economic circumstances and potential futures. That picture has important implications for those doing business with China and for U.S. policymakers.
Speaker's Bio:
Scott Kennedy is Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economy, ongoing areas of focus include China’s innovation drive, Chinese industrial policy, U.S.-China relations, and global economic governance.
Major publications include: Managing U.S.-China Tensions over the Global Economic Order: Tentative Proposals (CSIS, November 2024); U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry (CSIS, March 2024); (with Wang Jisi) Breaking the Ice: The Role of Scholarly Exchange in Stabilizing U.S.-China Relations (CSIS, 2023); China’s Uneven High-Tech Drive: Implications for the United States (CSIS, 2020); Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (Routledge, 2018); The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS, 2017); and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005).
Kennedy hosts the “China Field Notes” podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China.
Schedule:
5:00-6:00PM - Lecture in Cooperman Commons
6:00-7:00PM - Reception in Alumni Suite
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and cosponsored by the China and the World Program at Columbia University.
