Webinar on new China leaders and the US

Announcing a Webinar/Teleconference on
China’s New Leaders:
Implications for Foreign Policy and U.S.-China Relations.

Monday, November 19, 2012
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. ET
Exclusively avaialable via web or teleconference

Featuring

Jacques deLisle, Director FPRI Asia Program
    University of Pennsylvania Law School
June Teufel Dreyer, Senior Fellow, FPRI, University of Miami
Vincent Wang, Senior Fellow, FPRI, University of Richmond

China’s top leaders, headed by Xi Jinping as Party General Secretary
and President and Li Keqiang as Premier, formally take power at the
Chinese Communist Party’s  Congress in November (with state and
government positions formally conferred at the National People’s
Congress meeting the following spring). The full line-up of the ruling
Politburo Standing Committee remained uncertain on the eve of the
meeting, with a once-orderly if secretive arrangement thrown into tumult
by the Bo Xilai affair.  Even in less tumultuous times, China’s leadership
succession process means that observers have only limited clues about
future leaders’ policy agendas. Further complicating the implications for
China’s foreign policy and U.S.-China relations is the U.S. presidential
election, held just days before China’s Party Congress.  An FPRI webinar
discusses what to expect from China’s new leaders in terms of policy
toward the U.S., East Asia, cross-Strait relations, international economic
and security affairs and issues of domestic policy that affect China’s
place in the world. Panelists include FPRI senior scholars
Jacques deLisle, June Teufel Dreyer, and Vincent Wang.

To register for the free webinar/teleconference visit:
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/gphmux0210do

Listeners may submit questions online or via email.
Email your questions to questions@fpri.org.

For more information and updates visit:
http://www.fpri.org/events/2012/11/chinas-new-leaders-implications-foreign-policy-and-us-china-relations

or contact Harry Richlin at
(215) 732-3774, ext 102 or
Email: hr@fpri.org

About the Presenters

Jacques deLisle
Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and Professor of
Law at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in US-China relations,
Chinese politics and legal reform, cross-strait relations, and the
international status of Taiwan.

His publications in Orbis include “After the Gold Rush: The Beijing
Olympics and China's Evolving International Roles” (Fall 2009),
“Democratization in Greater China” (2004), “SARS, Greater China
and the Politics of Globalization and Transition” (Fall 2003) “Law’s
Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question” (Fall 2002),
“The Roles of Law in the War on Terrorism” (Spring 2002), and
“Humanitarian Intervention: Legality, Morality, and the Good
Samaritan” (Fall 2001).

He regularly publishes commentaries on Asian affairs as FPRI E-notes
and in other media. Other recent scholarly publications include
“Exceptional Powers in an Exceptional State: Emergency Powers Law
in China” in Emergency Powers Law in Asia (Victor V. Ramraj and
Arun K. Thiruvengadam, eds. forthcoming 2009); “The Other China
Trade Deficit: Export Safety Problems and Responses” in Import
Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy
(Cary Coglianese, David Zaring, and Adam Finkel, eds.
forthcoming 2009); “Development without Democratization? China,
Law and the East Asian Model” in Democratizations: Comparisons,
Confrontations and Contrasts (Jose V. Ciprut, ed. 2009); “International
Contexts and Domestic Pushback” in Democratization in Greater
China (Larry Diamond and Bruce Gilley, eds. 2008); “‘One World,
Different Dreams’: Assessing the Struggle to Define the Beijing
Olympics” in Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China
(Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, eds., 2008); and “Legalization
without Democratization in China Under Hu Jintao” in China’s
Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy
(Cheng Li, ed. 2008)

His articles also have appeared in Sino-American Relations,
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic
Law, American Society of International Law Proceedings,
Harvard Asia Quarterly, and edited volumes. He serves regularly
as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C., Hong Kong and Taiwan
law and government policies. He is a member of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations, vice-chair of the Pacific Rim
section of the American Society of International Law, and a
consultant, lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform,
development and education programs, primarily in the PRC. He
received a J.D. and graduate education in political science at Harvard.

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June Teufel Dreyer is Professor of Political Science at the University
of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Formerly senior Far East Specialist
at the Library of Congress, she has also served as Asia policy advisor
to the Chief of Naval Operations and as commissioner of the United
States-China Economic and Security Review Commission established
by the U.S. Congress. Dr Dreyer’s   most recent book is China’s
Political System: Modernization and Tradition, eighth edition, 2012.
She recently served as keynote speaker for the National Security
Agency’s annual conference.

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Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang is Professor of Political Science and
Chairman of the Department at the University of Richmond,
specializing in international political economy and Asian studies.
He has been a Visiting Professor or Fellow at National Chengchi
University (Taipei), National Sun-Yat-sen University
(Kaohsiung, Taiwan), El Colegio de Mexico, and Institute for Far
Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University (Seoul, South Korea).
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His latest
and forthcoming publications cover the China-India rivalry,
the rise of China, and China-Taiwan relations.

To register for the free webinar/teleconference visit:
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/gphmux0210do

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