Singapore – AI Research in China: Trends and Implications for Business and Geopolitics by Mr. Salman Jaffer [Wednesday, July 25]

Mr. Salman Jaffer will be sharing his insights on the tremendous progress that China has made in the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI). Salman will also talk about how China’s internet giants (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu) plan to develop

Berlin – Present and future state of Cross-Strait relations with Prof. Dr. Jhy-Wey Shieh, Representative of Taiwan [Thursday, July 26, 2018]

In recent years Cross-Strait relations have worsened and there seems to be no prospect to reopen formal cross-Strait channels of dialogue since they were cut in June 2016. China suspects that Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen aims to push for the

London – YCW LN: Beijing’s World with Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint [Tuesday, July 17]

with Lord Green We invite Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, former Minister of State for Trade and Investment and Group Chairman of HSBC to discuss. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ycw-ln-beijings-world-tickets-47833613626 Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint Stephen Green was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Oxford

Washington D.C. – Fifty Years of the United States and China with the Freeman Family with Chas Freeman, Carla Freeman, Charles Freeman III [Chas Freeman, Carla Freeman and Charles Freeman III]

In 1969, then-foreign service officer Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. began Mandarin language training at the State Department, so beginning the Freeman family’s nearly fifty year history of closely shaping U.S.-China relations. Ambassador Freeman would go on to play a

Singapore – China’s Open Door Policy 40th Anniversary (Panel Discussion) with Keith Zhai, Zhao Litao, Qian Jiwei, Judith Huang [Wednesday, July 11]

China’s Open Door Policy (改革开放) began in 1978 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China. On the 40th anniversary of China’s reforms, Young China Watchers (Singapore) would like to examine how China’s