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Beijing – How the economic developments of the past thirty years will inform the next thirty years of China’s growth story’ with Professor Yasheng Huang of MIT
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Beijing – ‘China’s Rise on the World Stage’ with Professor Pan Wei, Peking University
Pan Wei is Professor of International Relations at Peking University School of International Studies. Professor Pan is a highly respected academic from Beijing’s new school of thinkers looking at China’s emerging role in the world
Beijing – ‘The State of EU-China Relations’ with Peter Wilson, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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