Past events
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China’s aid in the Pacific: development partner or long-term threat?
Date: Wednesday 22 September, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Graeme discuss the results of his research into Chinese involvement in the region and address concerns that Chinese aid is likely to lead to long term influence over Pacific Island governments and policy positions.
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Taiwan and U.S.-P.R.C. Relations
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 16 September, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Taiwan and U.S.-P.R.C. Relations: A Former Practitioner's Views
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Climate change: Could China save the planet?
Date: Wednesday 11 August, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
Dr Adrian Macey will explore the multiple roles China is playing - nationally, in the international climate negotiations, and through its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world.
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'Understanding China in the Xi Jinping era'
Rescheduled event
Date: Wednesday 28 July, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
One of the world’s foremost China scholars will discuss his perspectives on how China’s history shapes its actions today.
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'How Asia can avoid Europe’s past'
Date: Thursday 8 July, 2021, 11:00am – 12:00pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Amitav Acharya will examine key changes to Asia’s economic, political, and strategic make-up, and how these might ensure that instead of reordering the region according to its interests and power, China itself will be shaped and constrained by them.
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POSTPONED: 'Understanding China in the Xi Jinping era'
Date: Thursday 24 June, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
Due to Wellington's move to Alert Level 2, this event has been postponed to late July. The new date and venue will be advised when confirmed.
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'China-watching in the age of Xi'
Date: Thursday 27 May, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Rutherford House, Mezzanine Room 3 (RHMZ03), Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
Join us as Rodney Jones explores different approaches to analysing China’s policy and politics.
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'The first 100 years of China's Communist Party'
Date: Thursday 29 April, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom Webinar
What does it mean to have a country of China’s strength and power which is also run by a communist party?
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The Trump Administration and the United States’ China post-1972 Engagement Policy
Global China Seminar
Date: Friday 9 April, 2021, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: AM106, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
The longstanding post-1972 consensus supporting a US policy of engagement with China has been eroded by increasing dissatisfaction with developments in China’s domestic and foreign policies.
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'Making the most of New Zealand’s trade agreements with China'
Date: Tuesday 30 March, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
New Zealand recently signed two significant agreements with China, both presenting compelling benefits to New Zealand.
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Modern Art for a Modern China: A Chinese Intellectual Project
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 25 March, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Room AM105, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
This presentation will demonstrate the crucial leadership of three leading public intellectuals in China’s art reform in the initial decades of the twentieth century
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'China's role in Western Pacific tuna fisheries'
Date: Thursday 11 March, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Rutherford House, Mezzanine Room 2 (RHMZ02), Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
China’s distant water fleet today outnumbers all other distant water fishing nations put together.
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'Has the 'Mood of the Boardroom' changed on China?'
Date: Wednesday 17 February, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
What is the view from the boardroom of New Zealand-China relations? What role can government play in ensuring New Zealand businesses can maximise opportunities in the China market?
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'The China-India relationship'
Date: Tuesday 15 December, 2020, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: RH105, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University, Bunny Street, Wellington
Manjeet S. Pardesi will unpack the asymmetries in the China-India relationship.
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The Chinese Economy: New Policies, Challenges and Directions
Date: Tuesday 17 November, 2020, 12:00am – Thursday 19 November, 2020, 12:00am
Location: Zoom
2020 has been a challenging year for economic policymakers all over the world. China is faced with managing the ongoing structural transformation of the economy, the fallout from the US-China Trade War and the global economic slowdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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'Adjusting to China’s digitised marketplace'
Date: Wednesday 28 October, 2020, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
Three key forces will shape Chinese consumer behaviour for the coming decades.
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'China in the Pacific: Complexity and agency'
Date: Wednesday 7 October, 2020, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Matiu Room, Level 1, Wharewaka Function Centre, Taranaki St Wharf, Wellington
China’s power and influence in the Pacific is growing, raising questions about the changing geopolitical landscape and its impact on local communities.
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Reflections on Rewi: A Conversation with David Mahon
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 3 September, 2020, 5:00pm – Thursday 27 August, 2020, 6:00pm
Location: HMLT104 Hugh McKenzie, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
David Mahon will reflect on where Rewi Alley would stand on the China of 2020.
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'Engaging China’s higher education reform' with Professor Denis Simon
Date: Wednesday 2 September, 2020, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Location: Zoom - webinar
Investment in higher education reform in China is increasing competition for the international student market, and creating new collaboration opportunities for international partners and their governments to assess and manage.
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'US-China relations after November'
Online Knowledge Transfer event
Date: Wednesday 22 July, 2020, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Hear Jeffrey Bader, a US government China specialist for over three decades, as he assesses the likely future direction of US-China relations, and what this might mean for New Zealand.
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