EAI Seminar on Zoom
Organised by East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
0:00:00
0:00:25 - Introduction by Prof Bert Hofman
0:03:06 - Seminar by Dr Bates Gill
0:41:34 - Q & A
Topic:
Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping
Speaker:
Dr Bates Gill
Executive Director, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society
Abstract:
In this talk, Dr Bates Gill will discuss his new book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping. The book examines the fundamental motivations driving China’s more dynamic, assertive and risk-taking approach to the world under Xi Jinping’s leadership. Daring to Struggle focuses on six increasingly important interests for today’s China-legitimacy, sovereignty, wealth, power, leadership and ideas-and details how the determined pursuit of them at home and abroad profoundly shapes its foreign relationships, contributing to a more contested strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
About the Speaker:
Dr Bates Gill is executive director of Asia Society Policy Institute’s Centre for China Analysis. Prior to joining the Asia Society, Bates held a number of research and academic leadership positions in the Indo-Pacific, Europe and the United States. Most recently, he was professor and chair of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University in Sydney, and the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence with the Asia Society Australia. In other previous roles, he served as director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, as the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and as founding director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Among his other professional affiliations, Bates is a senior associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London and serves on the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and on the Board of Advisers of the National Bureau of Asian Research. The author or editor of nine books on China- and Asia-related topics, Bates’ most recent book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. He has more than 200 other publications and conducted research-related travel to more than 50 countries. Bates has consulted for corporations, government agencies and philanthropic organisations, lectured widely and provided US Congressional and other parliamentary testimony related to Asian and global affairs, and made more than 600 appearances in print, broadcast and digital media. He received his PhD in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, lived and worked in China for two years, and has made more than 60 working visits to the country. Bates received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.
About the Moderator:
Prof Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is Director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Before joining NUS, he was with the World Bank for 27 years, 22 of which in Asia, and 12 of which on China. Prof Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019, the Country Economist 2004-2008, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014. He also worked on Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea and Mongolia. Before joining the World Bank, Prof Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). He has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues, and published on fiscal policy, debt issues, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.
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4 сен 2024
