YCW's New York was launched in 2014 and its inaugural speaker was Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, the former Director of Asia-Pacific Programs at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP).
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![New York – NY: Julian Gewirtz – “Searching for Ideas to Remake a Nation” (Tue, July 10th ) with Julian Gewirtz [Tuesday, July 10]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/julian_gewirtz1.png "New York – NY: Julian Gewirtz – “Searching for Ideas to Remake a Nation” (Tue, July 10th ) with Julian Gewirtz [Tuesday, July 10]")
Join Young China Watchers in marking the 40th anniversary of “reform and opening,” with Julian Gewirtz. We’ll sit down to dinner with Julian to hear insights from and discuss his book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making
![New York – [YCW NY] Carl Minzner: “The End of China’s Reform Era” (Mon, Apr 23) with Carl Minzner [Monday, April 23]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/c_minzer_240x2401.jpg "New York – [YCW NY] Carl Minzner: “The End of China’s Reform Era” (Mon, Apr 23) with Carl Minzner [Monday, April 23]")
China abolished term limits for the presidency in March 2018. Carl Minzner, professor of law at Fordham University, argues that this is only the latest in a long range of steps in the end of China’s reform era. YCW NY
![New York – YCW NY: Kevin Peraino – “Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China” (Tue, March 20th) with Kevin Peraino [Tuesday, March 20]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kevin-Peraino1-750x350.jpg "New York – YCW NY: Kevin Peraino – “Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China” (Tue, March 20th) with Kevin Peraino [Tuesday, March 20]")
In the opening months of 1949, President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe—“perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered,” as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong’s
Join the National Committee’s Young China Professionals and Young China Watchers NY for the screening of MAINELAND, a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan Chinese teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine.
![YCW NY: Adam Segal of CFR – “A New Era of Chinese Cybersecurity” (Feb 27th) with Adam Segal [Tuesday, February 27]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/YCW-logo.png "YCW NY: Adam Segal of CFR – “A New Era of Chinese Cybersecurity” (Feb 27th) with Adam Segal [Tuesday, February 27]"){kind=logo}
Over the past year, the Chinese government has significantly broadened its control of the internet. Under President Xi Jinping, China passed a law granting it unprecedented powers to survey its own populace, disrupted the popular messaging service WhatsApp, rolled out