China's rising international financial power: The future of the Dollar System?

To what extent is China emerging as a major power in the international financial system? The presentation by Gregory Chin will examine the nature of China's growing international financial power, and draw comparisons with Japan's emergence as a creditor nation two decades ago. Attention will also be given to the factors that constrain China's financial rise, as well as recent developments whereby Chinese authorities are cultivating greater financial and monetary independence from the United States, and potentially challenging the dollar's preeminence in ways that previous rising powers have not or could not.

Gregory Chin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada), where he teaches global politics, comparative politics, and East Asian political economy.

Dr. Chin is also a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and a member of the Global Governance Research Group organized by Chatham House, CIGI and the Instituto Affari Internazionali.

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