Challenges for China: New Leaders, Old Recipies?

This China session is part of the Pacific Council on International Policy's Spring Conference.

The session will examine China's new leadership and explore the policy choices they will likely make in order to meet China's many challenges. Click here to see the full conference schedule.

Moderator: Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Hachigian is a Senior Fellow at American Progress. Based in Los Angeles, she is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press called Debating China: The US-China Relationship in Ten Conversations due out next year. She focuses on great power relationships, international institutions, the U.S.-China relationship, and U.S. foreign policy. Prior to American Progress, Hachigian was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation and served as the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy for four years. Before RAND, she had an international affairs fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations during which she researched the Internet in China. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.

Hachigian has published numerous reports, book chapters, and journal articles, including essays in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Democracy, and Survival, as well as op-ed pieces appearing in the The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post, among others. Her earlier book was The Information Revolution in Asia (RAND, 2003). She has been a guest on "Real Time with Bill Maher," CNN, Fox News, BBC, and NPR’s "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." She is on the board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs at Stanford University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Baizhu Chen, Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Chen is the Academic Director of the Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) program of the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California. He teaches in the Department of Finance, specializing in
International Economics, Macroeconomics and Chinese Financial Markets. He is also a senior researcher in the Institute of Finance and Banking, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a visiting professor at Fudan University School of Management and China University of Politics and Law.
Previously, Professor Chen was a member of the Overseas Chinese Expert Advisors Committee to the Minister of Sciences and Technologies (MOST) of P.R. China. He has trained and consulted senior executives of various companies including Aegon Life, GF Securities, Brilliance Group, Little Swan Appliances, Xi’an Janssen Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly, LuJiaZui Group , Shanghai Stock Exchange
and Pudong Government of Shanghai

Chen’s the author of Chinese Financial Market Reform: Problems, Progress and Prospects as well as six other books, and his research has appeared in various peer reviewed journals. Chen is the recipient of grants from the Washington Center for China Studies, the Ford Foundation, the Chinese National Science Foundation, CIBEAR and Eurasian Studies for his research on China’s central bank monetary policies and the Chinese financial market. Professor Chen sits on the board of Aegon Industrial Fund Management Co. He is a Senior Advisor to Wipit, Inc. and Chairman of Gnoman Technology Ltd. He is also the chief economist of Sino-century Capital Asset Management. He was formerly the President of the Chinese Economists Society. Chen received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Rochester and his B.S. in mathematics from Fudan University in China.

Clayton Dube, Executive Director, University of Southern California U.S.-China Institute
Dube has headed the USC U.S.-China Institute (china.usc.edu) since it was established in 2006. The unstitute focuses on the multidimensional and evolving U.S.-China relationship. Dube was trained as an economic historian, has lived in China for five years (1982-85 and 1991-1992) and visited dozens of times for research, to lead delegations, or to lecture or participate in conferences. Dube’s long been committed to informing public discussion about China and about the U.S.-China relationship. He was associate editor of the academic journal Modern China and oversaw the web publication AsiaMedia.

He currently directs Asia Pacific Arts, and US-China Today. He’s produced and consulted on several documentaries, including the institute’s Assignment:China series on American media coverage of China. He writes the institute’s Talking Points column and he’s frequently cited in the U.S. and Chinese press. Since 2012, he’s co-moderated Chinapol, a private discussion list for academics, journalists, policy analysts, and government officials. Follow him on Twitter @claydube.

Robert A. Kapp, President, Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc. and Chairman, Pacific Council China Member Committee
Kapp is president of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc. He serves as Strategic Advisor to the U.S.-China
Specialty Group at Burson -Marsteller, a prominent global public and government relations firm, and as
Senior China Advisor to the well-known international law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP. From 1994 to 2004, Kapp served as president of The US-China Business Council, the principal organization of American companies engaged in trade and investment with China. Kapp also chairs the China Committee of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on a number of Advisory Boards of organizations deeply involved in contemporary Chinese affairs and U.S.-China relations, including: the U.S.-China Education Trust; the China Economic Quarterly; the Indiana University Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business; and the International Center for Civil Society Law (ICCSL). He is an Advisor to LinkAsia, a program of LinkTV.
   
He also was the principal initiator of The U.S.-China Legal Cooperation Fund, which provided more than onemillion dollars in support of a wide range of innovative and successful programs between 1998 and 2012. From 1979 to 1987, Kapp was the founding executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council and from 1987 to 1994 he served as president of the Washington Council on International Trade. He is the author of a scholarly monograph and other published research on 20th-
century China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.
-China Relations, and the World Affairs Council, whose World Citizen Award he received in 1994. Kapp earned his doctorate in mode rn Chinese history from Yale University, and from 1970 to 1980 taught Chinese history at Rice University and the University of Washington.