Martin Jacques assesses the role and continuing rise of China in the decade 2010 to 2019 in an article published in the Guardian on 31st December 2019.

By 2010, China was beginning to have an impact on the global consciousness in a new way. Prior to the western financial crisis, it had been seen as the new but very junior kid on the block. The financial crash changed all that. Before 2008 the conventional western wisdom had been that sooner or later China would suffer a big economic meltdown. It never did. Instead, the crisis happened in the west, with huge consequences for the latter’s stability and self-confidence.

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Martin Jacques delivered the Keynote Speech, titled ‘China, The Philippines and a New World Order’, at a special conference organised by the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines to a specially invited audience of leading government, media, business figures, and ambassadors, in Manila on 10 September 2019.

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Martin Jacques delivered the Keynote Speech, titled ‘Beginnings of a New World Order: The Rise of China’, at This is Tomorrow, a Symposium organised by the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR).

The session was chaired by Professor Nick Pearce, and held 12 September 2019 at Arts Lecture Theatre, The Edge, University of Bath.

Video copyright held by the University of Bath.

What will China be like as a great power: causes for optimism

The 6th Global China Dialogue: Governance for World Peace, organised by the Global China Institute, the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London, and the China Media Centre of the University of Westminster

Closing Speaker with Professor Zhao Kejin

6 December

London, United Kingdom

Globalisation in Transition: Adapting to a Changing World and Cooperation Forward: China and the World in a New Era

CGTN Global Media Summit and VMF 2019

Panellist

4 December 2019

Beijing, China

China’s 70-Year Development and the Construction of the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

Hongqiao International Economic Forum, part of the Second China International Import Expo, organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Speaker and Participant

5-6 November

Shanghai, China

The Chinese Way and the Belt and Road Initiative: a Civilizational State Perspective

Panel discussion between Zhang Weiwei, Rana Mitter, and Martin Jacques, organised by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism and sponsored by the China Arts and Entertainment Group and the Confucius Institute, Oxford Brookes University

Participant

14 October

Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

This hugely successful TED talk in London has now had over 4 million views. Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise?

30/7/18, The Heat

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was in Beijing in July on his first major overseas trip since taking office. The occasion, the 9th China-U.K. Strategic Dialogue, an event that serves to reinforce ties between the two countries.

Discussing the growing relationship between China and the United Kingdom on The Heat were Martin Jacques, senior fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University and author of When China Rules the World; Peter Ho, an economist and a research fellow at the London School of Economics; Philippe Le Corre, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School; Nathan King is a CGTN Correspondent based in Washington, D.C.

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