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Registrace 22. 08. 2011
Asia Global Institute is a multidisciplinary think tank co-established by The University of Hong Kong and the Fung Global Institute.
The institute’s mission is to generate and disseminate research and ideas on global issues from Asian perspectives. It aims to inform global policy and actions towards a prosperous and sustainable future for all.
The institute’s mission is to generate and disseminate research and ideas on global issues from Asian perspectives. It aims to inform global policy and actions towards a prosperous and sustainable future for all.
AGI Lecture - Reading China’s Future by Reading the Past: How China-West Relations are Being Shaped
AGI Lecture - Reading China’s Future by Reading the Past: How China-West Relations are Being Shaped Today by Historical Thinking
In this lecture, Rana Mitter from the Harvard Kennedy School joined Dee Poon from Tessellation Group, as well as Brian Wong from the Department of Philosophy, HKU, to discuss some of the key events from the recent and ancient past and how they continue to shape political thinking and policymaking in China and which should be better understood by its counterparts in the West and beyond.
Mitter delivered an insightful presentation exploring the four major factors that have shaped China's social thought and diplomatic approach. The economic legitimacy, which provides a rationale for China's emphasis on economic development, and it elucidates why both the government and the people exhibit robust support for advancements in science and technology; China's modern history, which explains its vision and unwavering pursuit of leadership in the Global South; The traditional thought of Confucianism, combined with Marxism-Leninism, offers insights into China's selection of social policies and its approach to tackling challenges, such as inequality and social mobility.
In the subsequent panel discussion, Heiwai Tang delved deeper into China's economic policies within the Global South and its strategic approach to collaborating with developing nations. In contrast, Wong offered a philosophical perspective on China's social development since the initiation of the Reform and Opening Up policy. Poon as a business professional, contributed an on-the-ground viewpoint, sharing her experiences navigating geopolitical tensions, deciphering various policies, and striving for sustainability while growing her enterprise.
In this lecture, Rana Mitter from the Harvard Kennedy School joined Dee Poon from Tessellation Group, as well as Brian Wong from the Department of Philosophy, HKU, to discuss some of the key events from the recent and ancient past and how they continue to shape political thinking and policymaking in China and which should be better understood by its counterparts in the West and beyond.
Mitter delivered an insightful presentation exploring the four major factors that have shaped China's social thought and diplomatic approach. The economic legitimacy, which provides a rationale for China's emphasis on economic development, and it elucidates why both the government and the people exhibit robust support for advancements in science and technology; China's modern history, which explains its vision and unwavering pursuit of leadership in the Global South; The traditional thought of Confucianism, combined with Marxism-Leninism, offers insights into China's selection of social policies and its approach to tackling challenges, such as inequality and social mobility.
In the subsequent panel discussion, Heiwai Tang delved deeper into China's economic policies within the Global South and its strategic approach to collaborating with developing nations. In contrast, Wong offered a philosophical perspective on China's social development since the initiation of the Reform and Opening Up policy. Poon as a business professional, contributed an on-the-ground viewpoint, sharing her experiences navigating geopolitical tensions, deciphering various policies, and striving for sustainability while growing her enterprise.
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The Global Race to Regulate AI and Its Impact on National Competitiveness
zhlédnutí 322Před 4 měsíci
During the seminar, Angela Zhang presented her latest book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs the Private Economy. The book delves into AI regulation across three major markets: the United States (US), the European Union (EU), and China. Zhang highlighted the significant increase in AI-related regulations in 2022, with 37 bills being passed into law worldwide. She emphasized t...
Global Trade Modernization Index 2024 Beta Edition Launch
zhlédnutí 230Před 5 měsíci
The Global Trade Modernization Index (GTMI) assesses economies' readiness for digital trade, encompassing both public and private sectors, as well as labor force capability. GTMI was first launched in July 2023 and this updated beta edition integrates five pillars of digital trade readiness: (1) Paperless Trade, (2) Trade Openness, (3) Regulatory Environment, (4) Business Readiness, and (5) Hum...
Asia’s Demographic Challenges: Scenarios and Adaptive Strategies
zhlédnutí 1,5KPřed 6 měsíci
Recent mass media has given extensive coverage on the demographic future of Asian countries. South Korea will reportedly halve its population size in the future; Japan will be a population of the ‘Old Old’; and China will seemingly face tremendous problems as its population ages. Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are also regularly in the news on the impending population crisis. Is Asia indeed f...
China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
zhlédnutí 4KPřed 7 měsíci
Yasheng Huang kickstarted the AGI Public Policy Seminar Series this year with an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of China’s economic and political reforms after 1978, based on his book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST, published in August 2023. Central to his argument was the notion that economic development has emerged as the primary focus of the Chinese state, resulting in a succession of tra...
AGI Lecture: The Dragon and The Eagle - Must the World Choose?
zhlédnutí 13KPřed 8 měsíci
In this lecture, a delegation from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) joined Eric Li from Chengwei Capital, as well as Dr Brian Wong from the Department of Philosophy, HKU, to discuss the political and economic climate between China and the US. Karen Dynan, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy from HKS, initiated the discussion by outlining the primary economic challenges the world faces, s...
AGD 2023: Closing Remarks by Professor Heiwai Tang
zhlédnutí 134Před 9 měsíci
AGD 2023: Closing Remarks by Professor Heiwai Tang
AGD 2023: Climate, Investment and Sustainable Growth
zhlédnutí 175Před 9 měsíci
AGD 2023: Climate, Investment and Sustainable Growth
AGD 2023: Building Better Economies in a Fractured and Multimodal World
zhlédnutí 267Před 9 měsíci
AGD 2023: Building Better Economies in a Fractured and Multimodal World
AGD 2023: Welcome Address by Dr Victor Fung
zhlédnutí 189Před 9 měsíci
AGD 2023: Welcome Address by Dr Victor Fung
AGD 2023: Welcome Remarks by Professor Xiang Zhang
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AGD 2023: Welcome Remarks by Professor Xiang Zhang
AGI Public Policy Seminar - Southeast Asia in the Changing Global Economy
zhlédnutí 464Před 10 měsíci
In this seminar, Krislert Samphantharak, Professor of Economic and Public Policy of the University of California San Diego examined Southeast Asian economic development using extensive data. He highlighted the common transition of most ASEAN countries from closed, import-oriented central planning to open, export-oriented market economies. As these nations are now wealthier, with urbanized and a...
AGI Public Policy Seminar - Investing in Climate: The Role of the Asian Investor
zhlédnutí 318Před 11 měsíci
During the AGI Public Policy Seminar on September 11, 2023, Dr Ben Meng from Franklin Templeton provided valuable insights on addressing climate change through the capital channel, emphasizing that the financial resources required for climate adaptation are so vast that traditional methods such as donations or public sector funding may not suffice. Instead, Dr Meng advocates for leveraging the ...
Podcast: Have China-US Relations Turned a Corner?
zhlédnutí 120Před rokem
A conversation with Young China Watchers Johanna Costigan Research and Editorial Associate, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) Writer and editor on China technology Member, Global Editorial Board, Young China Watchers (YCW) William Heidlage Senior Director, Bower Group Asia Global Executive Director, Young China Watchers (YCW) Follow us on Facebook: AsiaGlobalIn... Twitter: twitt...
AGI Public Policy Seminar: Taxing The Higher-income Group & Redistributing to the Lower-income Group
zhlédnutí 346Před rokem
Income disparity has become an increasingly pressing issue for many countries, Professor Bernard Yeung from the National University of Singapore shared his intriguing observations on Singapore's efforts to address wealth inequality with participants in the last AGI Public Policy Seminar on May 3, 2023. As policymakers worldwide struggle to find effective solutions, the Singaporean government ap...
AGI Public Policy Seminar: The Connections World: The Future Asian Capitalism
zhlédnutí 311Před rokem
AGI Public Policy Seminar: The Connections World: The Future Asian Capitalism
AGI Public Policy Seminar: Managing Supply Chains in the ESG Era
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AGI Public Policy Seminar: Managing Supply Chains in the ESG Era
AGI Lecture: A Trailblazing American Venture in China
zhlédnutí 1,3KPřed rokem
AGI Lecture: A Trailblazing American Venture in China
AGI Lecture: US-China-Japan Relations in the Asia Pacific
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AGI Lecture: US-China-Japan Relations in the Asia Pacific
Geopolitical Shifts and Restructuring of Global Production Networks in Post-Pandemic East Asia
zhlédnutí 754Před rokem
Geopolitical Shifts and Restructuring of Global Production Networks in Post-Pandemic East Asia
AGD 2022: Deglobalization Debunked: Decoupling or Recoupling - Shaping a New Globalization
zhlédnutí 349Před rokem
AGD 2022: Deglobalization Debunked: Decoupling or Recoupling - Shaping a New Globalization
AGD 2022 - Asia in a Changing Economy - The Future of Finance and the Challenge of Inequality
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AGD 2022 - Asia in a Changing Economy - The Future of Finance and the Challenge of Inequality
AGD2022: Asia in a Changing Economy - Pathways to Green Growth
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AGD2022: Asia in a Changing Economy - Pathways to Green Growth
AGD2022: Taking Stock: Assessing the Direction of the Global Economy
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AGD2022: Taking Stock: Assessing the Direction of the Global Economy
Podcast: China's Challenges and the Challenge of China: Beyond the 20th Party Congress
zhlédnutí 361Před rokem
Podcast: China's Challenges and the Challenge of China: Beyond the 20th Party Congress
Podcast: China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants
zhlédnutí 1,5KPřed 2 lety
Podcast: China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants
Podcast: India 75 Years After Independence
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Podcast: India 75 Years After Independence
So many Americans with humanities degree are hired to promote conflict between China and US. Such a shame to humanities department in elite American universities.
Eric Li is so realistic and eloquent 🤝✅. That Hong Kong guy with American accent is disgusting 😄.
😂😂😂 In future, make Brian speak last 5 mins b4 closing cos he will not stop.😂😂😂 Obviously, future Hongkong politician. 😅
this guy is talking nonsense lol.
You missed the link. Common prosperity is a concept emphasised by Confucianism - social harmony, ethical governance, and equitable distribution of wealth and resources. Confucius was in770 to 476 BC. Ching Imperial dynasty was 1744 to 1912 way off in your history. need to go further back for Chinese and Asian phyic
Interesting with clarity. One drawback is the sound quality. Rana Mitter is amazing and very knowledgeable about China than more Chinese scholars.
China is going to have a renaissance. China needs a renaissance. China needs to bring the rich traditional culture up to date, making the traditional culture relevant to modern life. In the last century and half, China has been absorbing the culture of the West. That makes China culturally very rich. That also requires China to integrate the different elements into new whole. China needs to examine its history with a new viewpoint. China needs to develop or adapt many disciplines, like sociology and anthropology to tell its own story.
He's British as far as I can tell.
why an Indian scholar? just amazing
Dragon 🇨🇳 and the Bear 🇷🇺
You are either stupid or really bad. Do you see the serious problems that china was facing in late 2010s where real estate was not sustainable after so many years of rapid development and the private sectors monopolize the economy which would hinder the further development if not properly regulated
That American guy, like most Americans , rejects the theory of multipolarity, and cannot think of any other countries worth mentioning than the US and China. The foremost example he should have thought should be Russia. It's people like him who caused the Ukraine war. And they keep treating other nations who don't think like them like dirt.
I'm an absolute fan of Eric Li's. But chairman Xi put it even more nicely, "modernisation is not westernization". The Westen Interpretation of this, à la Kevin Rudd, is Xi's Marxism and Leninism (he speaks good Chinese, but has no insights). In contrast, Eric's interpretation is that the West achieved modernization not through the modern western values, but through e.g. colonialism. And china needs to chart its own way. 👍
I nominate Brian Wong the un-official spokesman of HongKong!
I would love to see more of Dr. Brian Wong to share his perspectives on global and China issues in similar forums, and as always, Dr. Eric Li too. Saich was fair. Pretty good moderation throughout, credit to Prof. Tang. Both Cunningham and Dynan looked a bit tired over their busy schedules.
I hope the rich people leaving China to Singapore for example at least stay in Asia. Don't go to the West and enrich them, they hate Asians and feel superior. Enrich other Asians
Wow learning a lot
Brian Wong was totally excluded from the topic. He seems from the UK colonial era.
Eric Li's comments: 23:30 - Initial answer 44:59 Eric answering another Panelist's question 1:21:30 - final comment
1:30:19 short answer about US/China
Brave 🎉to Eric Li! 👍👍😅
Since 1949, even way back before Xi’s administration, Chinese has been the centralized government or centralized system. Otherwise, there would be no such a great achievement as right now in China.
This white guy knows nothing about Chinese education, which has been keeping to play the important role in Chinese further development. Every year China produces more than 10 million university graduates, in which 10 times more engineering graduates than that of USA.
I’m here mainly to get Eric’s cleverness, hate to see that UK colonial trainee, Brian Wong. Please not again!
So happy that Dr. Lee stopped being a "venture capitalist" and instead became a "venture socialist with Chinese characteristics." He understand that The People are suffering and that a return to communist ideals as exemplified by President Xi is imperative to alleviate our stagnation.
to that Hongkonger, Hongkong got its position today only because China used to be a closed country and need Hongkong as a port to connect the world, now China is open, the importance of Hongkong will be lower and lower, so there's nothing pround being a Hongkonger, without mainland China you're nothing. again to that Hongkonger, 1 country 2 system is about the ownership of basic resources of a country, in mainland China the ownership is in the state where in Hongkong the ownership is in the hands of private sectors, it's not about what you can say in Hongkong what you cannot say in mainland, btw, if what you say is true you can say it in mainland too, stop smearing mainland, mainland don't need to copy what you learned from the West, today's Western world is pure garbage in free speech, also the 1989 Tiananmen square incident had been painted as a typical anti China anti CCP material with lies, when you find yourself sharing the same view as the US govt, you know you've been brainwashed, it's the US who's behind almost every crisis on this planet, not China.
I know Brian since long from CZcams, he is just a colonial brainwashed.
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The west led by the U.S. always creat conflicts and polarizations between countries. Why countries have to pick and choose rather than work together?
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The difference between a talker and a doer, eric has real job apart from talking, thus his wording and language is emphatic and strong. Love it.
"共享繁榮"+"居者有其屋","豐衣足食"! No need to have Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water Mansion nor Trump's Trump Manhattan Building!
"共享繁榮"+"居者有其屋"!
1.0 China Doesn't Care About the Stock Market Markets (benefits only a few). 2.0 China isn't 'following the script' of the West! "Abacus against calculator"? Stock and Real property markets are the judgement for economy state in the West. Xi's ambitions are "share prosperity and sufficient (affordable) houses and food for all".
I got a kick out of the comment that China doesn't need a Constitution like the one possessed by the US. Which means China doesn't need an underlying Rule of Law either, right? Just have arbitrary legal judgements based upon "dynamic" interpretations of legal contracts based upon shifting power struggles. Granted, the US is showing similar moves towards arbitrary selective enforcement of the law with administration in the White House. But ultimately, if human and legal rights are "bestowed/revoked" based upon whoever happens to be in power, and therefore, are not unalienable, exactly for who does modernization benefit? A higher quality of economic life is meaningless without personal liberties. It's just a fancier form of political serfdom.
Strawman argument... that is your own interpretation skew to prove your point seriously dont be an idiot and pigeon hole yourself and not understand what exactly the comment was driving at....
Woke n sold out universities
Asking the world to choose is childish and immature. The world is big enough for different political and economic system.
thanks Erick
The western views and narratives about China always presumed that China is run by a pack of Mickey Mouse, unable to think, did not know what they are doing, a fumbling group of inepts and making mistakes after mistakes and China is going to collapse. On the contrary, America or the west is led by brilliant leaders and thinkers and America is the most progressive and well managed state in the world, doing everything right and America is just doing fine. And America rightly deserved to be lecturing China, telling China what to do, dictating to China, threatening and sanctioning China, bullying China, isolating and containing China, and the Chinese leader did not know what to do, did not know how to response, lamely sitting there to be bullied and threatened by the Americans and the West. Look at the realities on the ground. Over the last 40 years, where were China and the USA then and now? If China is run by a bunch of no idea and foolish leaders, would China be what it is today, the second biggest economy in the world, in ppp terms the biggest economy in the world. What about America, still sitting on top of the world? Looking at the end results, which state, China or the USA, is run by a bunch of Mickey Mouse? China today is very well ahead of the Americans in many fields of science and technology. The only thing left for the Americans to brag about is war, manufacturing wars and making war a business. This is the only industry left for the Americans but would soon also be over. China is now able to manufacture all the advanced weapons that once only the Americans could do, and can do it cheaper and better. America is declining into a Mickey Mouse country led by Mickey Mouse/Mice and still living in cartoon land believing that it still can kick the world around like before. The Americans are still deluding themselves by trying to sanction and isolate other states when in fact they are isolating and sanctioning themselves and did not have clue what is going on.
US just has microchips and airplane advantage. But China is catchin up quick.
no countries in the world can match the peoples of China,they are hardworking.they are not contented in the money they earn,they want more more more.they are very very smart.even with out education they will survive.when China becomes manufacturing in the world.must of the people’s are not well educated.in 1970 to 80 up to 90 the education is soo bad but they all surpass the well educated countries in the world.like America,Europe,Japan.and all.its not the education it’s the willingness of the to peoples to get rich 😊😊😊😊
Brilliant! I never new China in the 80's was like that!
I'm only here for Eric Li.
Me too. The rest is stupid Ph.D.'s from the West.
Very interesting experience from politics to economics this line will help me study my turbulent homeland Sudan from politics hopefully into economics a roadmap Very interesting lecture thank you so much
Dr Brian Wong is the citizen, enlightened, out spoken, unapologetic, wants to be part of the story, I admire. He knows who he is and hope he will infect others with his enthusiasm.
Great intellectual!
To what extent you can separate the political, from the economc policy. Technologically, or perhaps mechanically,they are both turning on the back of the same wheel, driving the affaires of the State. Otherwise there will be no synchronization between them. Each one of them is pulling or pushing the other in the same time.. And if you stall the wheel at any point, the whole thing will be at stillstand. You cannot just produce or accumulate products and labor in the kitchen without knowing, who they are , and what they are?, what is the menu? Who is going to cook t? Who is going to eat them? For what occasion? For what purpose? And who is going to pay the bill? And what is the overall net benefit of the whole gathering, not only on the stomach, and perhaps on the spirit, but on all the other social, cultural, and values assets as a distinct attribute of a specific society or civilization.
Wong is loud and simple but wrong. US want to see HK fail. Now trying their best to make sure HK fail.
The US that recognize its democratism, veiled brutality, and coveted humanitarian military expansionism. It dismisses with coercive cunningness with like-minded bullying allies, so the speaker does not have to engage with what s/he is defending.
The US led "rules based order" backed by unilateral sanctions wars and confiscations is the global hegemonic autocracy. The latest manifestation is in the condonment of genocidal war on Gaza
The elephant in the room that's ignored is the US containment of China from the Obama years consistently pursued by Trump and Biden. The trade wars, technology sanctions and disengagement. Some Chinese leaders suspected that Covid was a biological war launched after the Trump administration directed US businesses to withdrawal from China. The anti-China media campaign openly funded by the US State Dept, think tanks and academia. Continuous colour revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine followed with wars. All these formented a climate that will inflict big changes in Chinese policies
point about autocracy and technologic advancement is reversed. europe entered a dark age and tech stagnated during the chaos.. 🧐
Eric Li IQ is over 200
I'm here to listen to mr Eric Li
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