Chinese Views of China's Role in Global Governance

The George Washington University presents a lecture by Yan Xuetong.

Speaker:
Yan Xuetong -- Dean, Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University
 
Chinese people take their country's rise as a given. At the same time, it is difficult for them to express confidence in this rise because China lacks a strong ideology with which to frame and support it. Both the government and the people agree that their country's soft power is much weaker than that of the United States, and they understand it will be more difficult for China to catch up with the United States in this area than in areas of material capability. Chinese scholars are divided into two groups on the issue of improving China's soft power. One group stresses the role of political power and the other emphasizes cultural power.

Yan Xuetong is the Dean of The Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and the Chief Editor of The Chinese Journal of International Politics. He is Vice Chairman of the China Association of International Relations Studies and the China Association of American Studies and a member of the Consultation Committee of the Ministry of Commerce, PRC.
 
Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/YanXuetongNov8 by Monday, November 7, 2011.