11 Apr 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Juan Pablo CARDENAL
Author / Correspondent
Topic: Silent Army: How China is building its global power – from the ground up
As China hunts for natural resources and leverages its position as the world’s banker, Chinese firms are leaving heavy social and environmental footprints in many pa...
10 Apr 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Lawrence FREEDMAN
Professor of War Studies at King's College London
Topic: From Europe to Asia: OBAMA's Pivot
Professor FREEDMAN will describe the two key themes of Obama's foreign policy - a reluctance to intervene on the ground in distant conflicts other than Afghanistan and the 'pivot...
8 Apr 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Usha HALEY
Author / Professor of International Business, Massey University, New Zealand
Topic: Game Changer: how subsidies to Chinese Industry altered the World as we knew it
For the past five years or so, Usha HALEY has asked: Why did China frequently move in a couple of years, in capit...
20 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: JIANG Haishan
Vice President,
China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong (CELAP)
Topic: China's new policies after The National People's Congress
The session of the National People’s Congress ending on March 17 is producing a new president, premier and set of ministers for China who are ...
11 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David ANDERSON
Author & Physician
Topic: Hongshan Jade Carvings: Collection and Controversy
Mr. ANDERSON has openly collected more than a thousand jade carvings from China’s prehistoric Hongshan Culture (3,500 – 2,000 BCE) over the past 13 years, and he has done so at relatively lit...
26 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Larry LIPSHER
California & Hong Kong CPA
Topic: Bungee Jumping the Fiscal Cliff !
On 1 January 2013, Congress passed and the President signed the American Taxpayers Relief Act of 2012. This is the first of a few tax-related bills which must be legislated in the U.S. during 2013 that...
19 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John GARNAUT
China Correspondent for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Foreign Policy
Topic: BO Xilai’s fall and XI Jinping’s Rise : How Power Really Works in China
BO Xilai's fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, political purges, ideological clashes and the Byzantine de...
23 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark KITTO
Magazine Founder / Author
Topic: Going Quietly Cuckoo on a Chinese Mountain
In 2005, Mark KITTO was told by many people that he was mad to move to Moganshan, a remote mountaintop village in Zhejiang where he planned to set up a coffee shop with his wife and to write books. He ...
22 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. RUAN Zongze
Vice President and Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies
Topic: The World and Chinese Diplomacy in 2013
The new year brings a long list of diplomatic challenges, and as the sudden evacuation of Chinese nationals from distant Libya showed nearly two...
21 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: P. Kevin MacKeown
Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hong Kong
Topic: Typhoons and Taskmasters: Early Meteorology in Colonial Hong Kong
In the three proposed schemes for an observatory at Hong Kong, a role for forecasting typhoon occurrences actually received little emphasis. A...
