YOUNG CHINA WATCHERS: FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CHINA THOUGHT-LEADERS

Through our 10 chapters in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Singapore, Brussels, and Washington DC, YCW engages individuals on the most pressing issues emerging from China today.

CREATING DIALOGUE ABOUT CHINA THROUGH OUR GLOBAL SPEAKER SERIES

YCW attracts leading experts on China from academic, policy and business communities to speak across our city chapters in Asia, Europe and the U.S.

ENGAGING YCW COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING NETWORKS

YCW hosts roundtables and dinners with visiting experts and delegations, allowing for more focused interaction and discussions on the latest key issues. Our growing online community features diverse analysis by established and emerging experts, connecting with our members around the world.

Shanghai – ‘China’s Growing Soft Power Abroad’ with Shen Dingli, Fudan University

Shen Dingli is Professor of International Relations at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies / Center for American Studies. He co-founded and directs China’s first non-government based program on Arms Control and Regional Studies at Fudan. His research and publications

Beijing – ‘The Implications of G-Zero World for Asia’, Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group

Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. In 1998, Bremmer founded Eurasia Group with just $25,000. Today, the company has offices in New York, Washington, and London, as well as a

Hong Kong – ‘Assignment China’ with Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at University of Southern California (USC)

Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California, who will be showing excerpts from his film Assignment China – Watching China from Hong Kong. The screening will be followed by a brief Q & A. Mike Chinoy

Shanghai – ‘Place Your Bets: China in 2013’ with Andy Rothman, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets

Andy Rothman has a wealth of knowledge of China’s economic policies, politics, and history after seventeen years in the U.S. Foreign Service and more than twenty years of working in China. Now based in Shanghai, Rothman has been China Macro

Beijing – ‘Move Over Goldman Sachs, China Development Bank Is In Town’ with Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe, Bloomberg

Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe are co-authors of “China’s Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence – How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance”. Henry Sanderson has been a Beijing-based reporter for Bloomberg News since April 2010. Prior to that, he was a reporter for