“New Globalisation and China’s Greater Bay Area“
Understanding China Conference organised by the International Department of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS)
Speaker and Participant
25-27 October 2019
Guangzhou, China
“Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: New Horizon for China’s Reform and Opening-up, New Practice of ‘One Country, Two Systems’, and New Platform for Win-Win Cooperation”.
International Forum organised by the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Office of the Commissioner of China’s Foreign Ministry
Speaker and Participant
24 October 2019
Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong
The PRC at 70: Policy, Institutions and Development
Public Seminar organised by the University of Johannesburg Centre for Africa-China Studies, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study
Keynote Speaker
16:00-19:30, 9 October 2019
Chinua Achebe Auditorium, University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Professor Zhang Weiwei and Martin Jacques discuss the recent unrest in Hong Kong on Episode 35 of ‘CHINA NOW’.
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Martin Jacques joins Karen Davila on ANC Headstart to talk about the ongoing US-China trade war, China’s handling of the situation in Hong Kong and why he thinks President Duterte’s pivot to China is the right decision.
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‘This is Tomorrow’
Symposium organised by the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR)
Keynote One: Beginnings of a New World Order: The Rise of China
Chair: Professor Nick Pearce, IPR
10.10-11.10, 12 September 2019
Arts Lecture Theatre, The Edge, University of Bath
Mining Conference
Keynote Speaker: China, The Philippines and a New World Order
Other speakers include the Cabinet Secretary, the Chairman of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines, and the Former Dean of the Asian Center, University of the Philippines
14.00-18.00, 10 September 2019
Manila, Philippines
Special Session of the China Development Forum 2019
Luncheon Speaker alongside CDF Secretary General LU Mai and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the topic of US-China relations
6 September 2019
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Beijing
By Invitation Only
Martin Jacques discusses Chinese governance with People’s Daily Online on 5 July 2019.
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This is the transcript of a talk Martin Jacques gave at a Forum organised by China Daily at the G20 in Osaka on 25 June 2019.
There is no point in building castles in the air. We must live in the here and now. I am sure the great majority of us wish we were not where we are. We would prefer that the era, beginning in the late 1970s, of globalisation and multilateralism, and that was characterised by relative stability and cooperation in the relationship between the US and China, was still in place. It is not. And it will not return for a very long time. The reason for the breakdown in that old order is profound, as is invariably the case with great historical shifts. We need to understand the causes. Read more >