![Shanghai – Can China Win the FIFA World Cup? [March 06, 2018]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Rufio2-270x350.jpg "Shanghai – Can China Win the FIFA World Cup? [March 06, 2018]")
The 2018 FIFA World Cup takes place in Russia this summer, and although China will not be present, changes are afoot so that the same will not be said in the future. In 2016 China’s NDRC released its ‘Medium and
![Washington D.C. – YCW DC: China and Global Women’s Issues with Bonnie S. Glaser [Tuesday, March 13]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/5Glaser.jpg "Washington D.C. – YCW DC: China and Global Women’s Issues with Bonnie S. Glaser [Tuesday, March 13]")
Please join Young China Watchers – Washington, DC, for the first installment of a speaker series this March highlighting experts at the nexus of China and global women’s issues. On March 13, YCW will host Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for
![London – YCW London: Leftover in China – The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower with Roseann Lake [Friday, March 09]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Roseann_Lake_sqr-400x350.jpg "London – YCW London: Leftover in China – The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower with Roseann Lake [Friday, March 09]")
With Roseann Lake (The Economist) We invite Roseann Lake, Journalist and Producer at The Economist to discuss. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ycw-london-leftover-in-china-women-shaping-the-worlds-next-superpower-tickets-43750812859 Roseann Lake Roseann Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing, where she spent time as a television reporter and
![Brussels – YCW Brussels: Chinese New Year Dinner & Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tuesday, Feb. 20) with Dr. Tao Liling [Tuesday, February 20]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Tao-Liling_crop-675x350.jpg "Brussels – YCW Brussels: Chinese New Year Dinner & Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tuesday, Feb. 20) with Dr. Tao Liling [Tuesday, February 20]")
Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important Chinese festival which celebrates the turn of the traditional Chinese calendar. New Year’s traditions include to thoroughly clean the house in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and
![Shanghai – China’s Private Army: Protecting the New Silk Road [December 13, 2017]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1512008780-428x350.png "Shanghai – China’s Private Army: Protecting the New Silk Road [December 13, 2017]")
Chinese investment in a number of energy and infrastructure projects under its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has resulted in the flow of billions of dollars and thousands of Chinese workers into South & Central Asia, the Middle-East, and