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CelebSalon: Ken Lieberthal, China Expert

When:
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Where:
Hosted by Joanne and John Vine
2101 Connecticut Ave NW #21
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Ann V Talty
(202) 436-5252 (p)
Category:
Celeb Salon
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Kenneth Lieberthal is a China expert who closely tracks the country’s political and economic reforms, President Xi’s vision for China in the 21st century and the evolving US-China relations. He directed Brookings’ John L. Thornton China Center, served on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. He has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan for most of his career. His book, China's Political Development, details China's path to political reform over the last three decades.

Lieberthal offers a unique look into China’s dramatic reforms, as an expert on China's elite politics, political economy, domestic and foreign policy decision making, and on its changing relations with the US. He is currently senior fellow emeritus in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, where from 2009 to 2016, he was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and the Global Economy and Development programs. From 2009 to 2012, he served as director of Brookings' John L. Thornton China Center.

His work on in China in the 21st century is particularly interesting both in explaining China’s vision—The Chinese Dream and the Chinese Path—for the 21st century as well as helping us understand President Xi. On the topic of the China dream, Xi “has expressed confidence that China will by mid- 21st century be a major power, widely admired for its wealth, technological prowess, and advanced civilization. In Chinese historical terms, this vision includes a China that has fully overcome the travails and legacies of its “century of humiliation” (roughly, from the 1840s until the 1940s). It also includes a China that is distinctly Chinese, not simply successful copies of Western models and values. Ken writes: “I don’t think China is simply another global power. Ken explains that both China and the U.S. seek cooperation on many issues and want to avoid slipping into an adversarial relationship. But competition is also an increasingly prominent part of the equation.” China—he argues—is not focused solely on hard power—it devotes major resources to building its soft power and its global economic engagement. But it is also building the capability to make hard power a significant part of the equation.

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