The challenges and opportunities presented by China’s rise are hotly contested. To help make sense of the issue, ChinaPower hosted its second annual conference on November 14, 2017. The conference featured a series of debates between leading experts on the nature of Chinese power. The audience was polled for their opinion both before and after each debate. Polling results, debate descriptions, and conference video are posted below.
Keynote Speech
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Proposition 1
FOR: Zhou Fangyin
Senior Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
AGAINST: Joshua Eisenman
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Proposition 2
FOR: Graham Allison
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
AGAINST: Evan Medeiros
Managing Director for Asia, Eurasia Group
Proposition 3
FOR: Huang Can
Professor, Head of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Co-Director of Institute for Intellectual Property Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University
AGAINST: Adam Segal
Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security
Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Proposition 4
FOR: Chen Dingding
Professor of International Relations, Jinan University
Founding Director, Intellisia Institute
AGAINST: Evan Feigenbaum
Vice Chairman, Paulson Institute
Proposition 5
FOR: Damien Ma
Fellow and Associate Director, Think Tank, Paulson Institute
Adjunct Lecturer of Global Initiatives in Management, Northwestern University
AGAINST: Anne Stevenson-Yang
Co-Founder, Research Director, J Capital Research Co. Ltd.