In a New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded the country’s accomplishments in 2017 and gave a road map for China’s priorities in 2018.

2017 has been a big year for China – from President Xi’s travels to Davos to hosting the first Belt and Road Initiative Forum to the 19th CPC Meeting. China is taking the lead across the world and at home. So what’s the outlook for the country this year?

To discuss President Xi’s speech and the future of China in 2018: Victor Gao, a Chinese international relations expert Dan Wang, a China analyst with The Economist Intelligence Unit; Martin Jacques, author of “When China Rules the World” and a senior fellow in politics and international studies at Cambridge University; Jacques deLisle, a professor and director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Talk: ‘They said I was too optimistic about China, but I wasn’t optimistic enough!’

2pm (TBC)

Live audience and streamed live, guancha.com website

Shanghai, China

Lecture: China’s Great Renaissance

Private Event

9.30-11.45am

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Special Guest Lecture

Title: China and the United States: Travelling in Opposite Directions

7pm

Yenching Academy, Peking University, Beijing, China

A panel discussion on the eve of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party broadcast by CGTN America. The participants are: Zhou Jingxin, Minister-Counselor and Chief of the Political Section at the Chinese Embassy in the United States; Keyu Jin, a professor at the London School of Economics; Martin Jacques, author of “When China Rules the World”; and Wang Guan, chief political correspondent for CCTV America

 

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Speaker at Thinkers’ Forum on Chinese Socialism organized by China Institute, Fudan University and Guancha.com,

Shanghai, China

Public Lecture, ‘The Threat Posed By Trump: China’s Great Challenge’

6.30-8.30pm

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Panellist in Public Town Hall Meeting on the forthcoming Congress of the Chinese Communist Party hosted by CGTN

Washington DC, USA