![Hong Kong – Our real liquidity crisis: does Asia have enough water? with Debra Tan [Wednesday, April 18]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Debra-Tan-750x350.jpg "Hong Kong – Our real liquidity crisis: does Asia have enough water? with Debra Tan [Wednesday, April 18]")
A looming liquidity crunch in China could affect trillions of dollars and spill over into the financial markets. This liquidity crunch doesn’t involve capital, but a commodity no economy or country can function without – water. In the new era
![Beijing – The Socio-Economic Impact of AI in East Asia with Danit Gal [Friday, April 13]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/unnamed-150x150-1.jpg "Beijing – The Socio-Economic Impact of AI in East Asia with Danit Gal [Friday, April 13]")
Artificial Intelligence seems to be at the focus of all technology-related governmental planning, corporate strategy, and technical educational reforms, but are we really prepared for a technological tide that is already washing over us? The use of artificial intelligence in
![Brussels – “Drivers and dynamics of investment between China and Europe: open for business?” with Joanna Huang [Tuesday, April 10]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/imageedit_1_4445643294-750x350.jpg "Brussels – “Drivers and dynamics of investment between China and Europe: open for business?” with Joanna Huang [Tuesday, April 10]")
Chinese investments in Europe have sky rocketed in recent years. While the pattern emerging across European countries may vary in intensity and across sectors, Europe in general offers attractive assets to a growing China – technology, market access, brand names
![Washington D.C. – China and Global Women’s Issues (Part 3) with Meredith Sumpter [Monday, March 19]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Meredith.png "Washington D.C. – China and Global Women’s Issues (Part 3) with Meredith Sumpter [Monday, March 19]")
Please join Young China Watchers – Washington, DC, for the third installment of a speaker series this March highlighting experts at the nexus of China and global women’s issues. On March 19, YCW will host Meredith Sumpter, who heads research
![New York – YCW NY: Kevin Peraino – “Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China” (Tue, March 20th) with Kevin Peraino [Tuesday, March 20]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kevin-Peraino1-750x350.jpg "New York – YCW NY: Kevin Peraino – “Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China” (Tue, March 20th) with Kevin Peraino [Tuesday, March 20]")
In the opening months of 1949, President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe—“perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered,” as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong’s