Politics

The Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library invites you to the book launch of “The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century”edited by Huhua Cao and Vivienne Poy.

Time:
10 AM to 1 PM, Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Location:
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library
8th floor, 130 St. George St.
University of Toronto

Date: March 19, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 208N, North House

SPEAKERS
Kellee Tsai
Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

CONTACT INFO
Katherine Mitchell

DESCRIPTION
Is China developing a capitalist class that will rise to demand democracy? Based on an original national survey of business owners and extensive field research, Professor Tsai finds little evidence for such popular expectations. Nonetheless, private entrepreneurs have profoundly reshaped China’s political economy through a myriad of adaptive informal institutions.

Date: March 18
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 208N, North House

SPEAKERS
Marcus Noland
Deputy Director, Peterson Institute For International Economics

CONTACT INFO
Katherine Mitchell

DESCRIPTION
Marcus Noland will speak about economic change in North Korea (including the failure of recent currency reforms) and the criminalization of economic activity in North Korea (including the expanded use of the penal system). His talk is based on two large scale refugee surveys conducted by Noland, who will also touch upon nascent dissent and political attitudes in North Korea based on his findings.

Date: 12 March 2010
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: 208N, North House (Munk Centre for International Studies)

SPEAKERS
Ted Lipman
Speaker
Canadian Ambassador to Korea

CONTACT INFO
Katherine Mitchell

DESCRIPTION

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.

This Friday, October 23, David Bachman (Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington) will be presenting a talk entitled "The (In)Security of China under Mao: Grand Strategy and Defense Industrialization" at the Munk Centre for International Studies, room 108N, from 2-4pm. Please register online at:

http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=7931

Description:

PEACE AND CONFLICT SOCIETY PRESENTS

THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

THIS WEEKEND@UofT OCTOBER 9-11

Starts Friday at 7pm, U of T's Faculty of Law

REDEFINING CENTRAL ASIA:
COOPERATION, STABILIZATION & IMPLICATIONS OF REGIONAL SECURITY
FEATURING:
SENIOR DIPLOMATS, SCHOLARS, SPECIALISTS, POLICY MAKERS,
MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COMMUNITIES

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

FORMER CANADIAN AMBASSADOR AND UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO AFGHANISTAN

(CHAIR: BRIAN STEWART, SENIOR MUNK FELLOW/CBC NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT)

THE HONOURABLE BOB RAE, PC, OC ,OOnt, QC, MP

FOREIGN AFFAIRS CRITIC OF THE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION

(CHAIR: BILL GRAHAM, FORMER LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, DEFENCE MINISTER )