The final session of the 2017 China’s Grand Strategy lecture series was delivered by Professor Oliver Della Costa Stuenkal, who mastered a lecture packed with insight, relevance and vitality towards the discourse of ‘International Relations’. Summarizing the lecture comes with difficulty as Professor Stuenkal’s ideas were delightfully profound as he grappled with the faults of [...]
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Travelling from the prestigious University of St Andrews it was not Professor Ian Taylor’s first visit to China of Renmin University when he came to give his lecture ‘The Return of Geopolitics: One Belt One Road and India’ for the seventh China’s Grand Strategy class. Professor Taylor’s talk was bolstered by the fact he had [...]
Professor Lyle Goldstein was the key note speaker for the sixth China’s Grand Strategy lecture who made a highly engaging case on the relations between China and the United States. An American himself he noted clearly that his views on China-U.S.A cooperation are towards the more controversial side of the spectrum when digested by an [...]
The Contemporary China Studies Program’s fifth China's Grand Strategy lecturer, Andy Mok, left nobody disappointed in his comprehensive lecture on Artificial Intelligence. Andy Mok is a generational symbol himself: his parents moved from China to America where he grew up, and is now in China reporting on the relatively unreported subject of China’s huge successes [...]
The fourth China’s Grand Strategy lecture came with the arrival of President Donald Trump to Beijing amid tensions among North Korea’s recent nuclear tests. So who better than Professor Wu Riqiang to to give his lecture on ‘China’s Nuclear Strategy’? Professor Wu is clearly well read in the field of nuclear strategy and not a [...]
The third lecture of the 'China's Grand Strategy' course represented the most youthful of the lecturers so far, Cui Shoujun, in charge of the Contemporary China Studies Program at Renmin University. And youthful indeed was his approach in his teachings, finding ways to bring interesting and relate-able examples to his three pronged approach to ‘Understanding [...]
For the second session of our 2017 ‘China’s Grand Strategy’ lecture series, we had the honor of Professor Andrew Walter's visit (from Melbourne University) who spoke about the ‘Banking crises, financial stabilization, and politics: A long run analysis’. Professor Walter - perfectly in command of his subject field as well as an impressively skilled speaker [...]
“The Effect of Trump and More: The Emerging Retrenchment of China’s Strategic Posture in East Asia and Pacific” Renmin University's renowned Professor Shi Yinhong was the one to kick-start this year's 'China's Grand Strategy' lecture series, a key course component to the Contemporary China Studies Program. A keen audience of students from the Contemporary China [...]
A hot summer in Beijing is over and the Contemporary China Studies Program welcomes its 11th intake of future China Scholars to Renmin University. A total of 36 students - including students from our new double degree program with King's College London (Double Masters in Asian & European Affairs) - got together for a program [...]
