Chinese Diplomacy under Xi Jinping in a Changing World

Lecture by HAO Yufan (Chair Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau).

Drinks afterwards.

The lecture

As China has experienced spectacular economic growth since 1979, Chinese foreign policy has undergone significant changes.  It has become less personalized, radical, and ideological, while becoming increasingly pragmatic and sophisticated. China’s national interests are more specifically defined, and the pursuit of those interests has become more realistic and flexible. This talk will discuss the challenges China faces today and the possible trend of Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping.

The speaker

Hao Yufan is Chair Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau. He obtained his MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He was a McArthur Fellow at Harvard University Center for International Affairs 1988-1989, and taught at Colgate University from 1990 to 2005, holding an endowed Chair of Robert Hung Ngai Ho Professor of Asian Studies from 2003-2005 at Colgate. He became the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Macau from 2005 -2013. He was a senior visiting professor to Beijing Normal University (1993), Peking University (1999-2000), Tsinghua University (2003), Renmin University of China (2003), and an international fellow at Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center (2005), senior visiting fellow at Keio University (2006-2007), visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution (2012). Currently, he holds an honorary jianzhi professorship at Fudan University, Shanghai University of International Studies, Beijing Foreign Affair University, and Harbin Normal University. In addition to serving in the editorial board of several leading academic journals in China and Asia, he is also editor-in chief of the Journal of Macao Studies, and Macao Blue Book. He has written and edited 24 books and monographs and authored more than 50 journal articles and chapters in books on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign relations, U.S.-China relations, Macao Studies.

Registration

Ms Heleen vander Minne, h.m.van.der.minne@iias.nl