![London – YCW LN: Second KCL-YCW Essay Competition Winners’ Presentations with Kerry Brown [Monday, May 21]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/kerrybrown_150x150.jpg "London – YCW LN: Second KCL-YCW Essay Competition Winners’ Presentations with Kerry Brown [Monday, May 21]")
Following our inaugural essay competition in 2016 with King’s College London’s Lau China Institute, YCW and the Lau China Institute held a second essay competition in 2017 on the topic: “Cyber China.” Dozens of fascinating contributions poured in from young
![London – YCW LN: China’s Great Wall of Debt: A financial journalist’s lessons from 10 years reporting from China with Dinny McMahon [Wednesday, May 09]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/dinny-sq.jpg "London – YCW LN: China’s Great Wall of Debt: A financial journalist’s lessons from 10 years reporting from China with Dinny McMahon [Wednesday, May 09]")
Join YCW London for an evening of discussion with journalist and author Dinny McMahon about his new book China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle. Dinny will talk about
![Shanghai – Securing the New Silk Road with Raffaello Pantucci, Director of International Security Studies, RUSI [April 26, 2018]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/raf.jpg "Shanghai – Securing the New Silk Road with Raffaello Pantucci, Director of International Security Studies, RUSI [April 26, 2018]")
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a key component of China’s political and economic strategy in Eurasia. China’s growing influence across its western and southern borders is one of the most important geopolitical trends today. With the development of
![Hong Kong – Our real liquidity crisis: does Asia have enough water? with Debra Tan [Wednesday, April 18]](https://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]](https://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