Godalming, UK
‘How China is Changing the World’
with Vince Cable
Whitehall Place, London, UK
‘The U.K. sees China as a friend, why don’t we?’
6.30pm
Martin Jacques and Susan Shirk, as part of the C-100 Speakers Forum Series
Stanford University, California
SAP, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto 94303
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‘What the UK’s pivot towards China tells us about the future.’
Private event, organised by the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
The Churchill Room, 100 Parliament Street, Westminster, UK
Original article by Ni Tao in the Shanghai Daily.
Every five years China unveils a comprehensive blueprint for its economic and social development, commonly known as the five-year plan. This year marks the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), ushering in a raft of official conferences and proclamations on the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020). Read more >
China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan wave as they board their aircraft to return to China, at Manchester airport in Britain.
There were emotional scenes as President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, waved while their limousine swept out of Albert Square in Manchester at the conclusion of their weeklong state visit to the UK.
Thousands of Chinese, many of them local students, surrounded the square in front of the city’s town hall, a symbol of Britain’s Victorian industrial power, where the couple had just had lunch with civic leaders. They shouted, “Xi Dada! Xi Dada”, a term of endearment, referring to him as uncle.
This was no manufactured nationalism, as some of the British media had suggested, but reflected both a youthful nationalism and a confidence in the new direction of the country.
Apart from South African president Nelson Mandela nearly two decades ago, you would have to go back to perhaps 1977 to witness such crowd scenes for a foreign leader’s visit. It was then that US president Jimmy Carter famously ventured to another northern English city – Newcastle upon Tyne.
Martin Jacques appears on CCTV to argue that China’s impact on the world reaches far beyond the economic realm and can be better understood through the history of civilization.
As Britain decides whether it supports Obama’s warships, or if it’s trying to re-affirm its support for AIIB bank and a nation that has brought more than 600 million people out of poverty in one generation, Going Underground – an online current affairs programme – spoke to Martin Jacques.