Civil Society and US-China Relations | Oxford Political Review Panel

On Tuesday 9 March at 13:00 GMT, OPR will host a panel event on US-China relations chaired by Michael Shao.

The panel will feature: Dr. Yawei Liu (Senior Advisor on China at the Carter Centre); Prof. Susan Thornton (Former Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs); Dr. Kerry Brown (Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London), and Emily Feng (Beijing Correspondent, NPC News).

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Yawei Liu (刘亚伟) is the senior advisor on China at The Carter Center and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the associate director of the China Research Center in Atlanta and an adjunct professor of Political Science at Emory University. He is the founding editor of China elections.org which went online in 2002. He launched the US-China Perception Monitor websites in 2014. Yawei earned his B.A in English literature from Xian Foreign Languages Institute (1982), M.A. in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989) and Ph. D. in American History from Emory University (1996).

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He is an Associate of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012, as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section. He previously graduated from Cambridge University and has a Ph D in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University. He is the author of almost 20 books on modern Chinese politics. He has recently been awarded the China Cultural Exchange Person of the Year.

Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent. Feng joined NPR in February 2019. She works across an extensive range of issues and domains, reporting on a mixture of social trends as well as economic and political news coming out of Beijing. Feng contributes to NPR's newsmagazines, newscasts, podcasts, and digital platforms. From 2017 through 2019, Feng was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. Based in Beijing, she covered a broad range of topics, including politics, civil society, human rights, technology, and the environment.

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with nearly three decades with the U.S. State Department in Asia. She is currently a senior fellow and research scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale University Law School; the director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Thornton had served as acting assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State and facilitated or crafted the American response to crises including tensions in the Korean peninsula, escalating trade conflicts with China, amidst a rapidly shifting international environment.

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