The China Race and Europe
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- G3
About this event
After a brief report on the political organisation, world view and performance record of the PRC (People’s Republic of China), this presentation describes the China Race, the global competition for power and leadership between the PRC and the US-led West.
The rising power of the PRC state has been seeking to recentre and reorganize the world to safeguard its way of political governance at the minimum and, at the maximum, to build a centralised, singular world polity as an alternative to the Westphalian system of international relations. Considering the feasibility and desirability of the two competing world orders, Professor Fei-Ling Wang will outline a holistic strategic framework, with three ranked objectives and some illustrative methods, for the West and the world, including the Chinese people, to manage, benefit from, and prevail in the China Race. The talk will end with a reflection on the indispensable role of Europe in the PRC-USA rivalry.
About the speaker
Fei-Ling Wang, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor at Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (fw@gatech.edu). His research interests are comparative and international political economy, U.S.-East Asian relations, and East Asia and China studies.
Wang has published nine books (two co-edited) in two languages including Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System (Stanford University Press. 2005) and “The China Trilogy” that includes The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power (SUNY Press, 2017), The China Record: An Assessment of the People’s Republic (SUNY Press, 2023), and The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Order (SUNY Press, 2024). He has also published dozens of book chapters and journal articles in four languages, including op-eds in newspapers like The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor.
Wang taught at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs), and held visiting and adjunct/honorary positions in institutions like European University Institute in Italy, Sciences Po in France, National Sun Yat-sen University and National Taiwan University in Taiwan, National University of Singapore, Renmin University and Anhui Normal University in China, University of Macau, University of Tokyo, and Sungkyunkwan University and Yonsei University in Korea.
Wang has guest-lectured in over 50 universities worldwide and appeared in many national and international news media such as Al Jazeera, AFP, AP, BBC, CNN, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Radio China International, South China Morning Post, VOA, The Wall Street Journal, and the Xinhua News Agency. He has had numerous research grants including a Minerva Chair grant, a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant and a Hitachi Fellowship. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Chair: Professor Steve Tsang, Director, SOAS China Institute
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend, however registration is required.
Please note that this seminar is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
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Contact
- Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
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