Author: Will Spence

  • 25-27 October 2019

    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

  • 24 October 2019

    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

  • 9 October 2019

    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

  • Zhang Weiwei and Martin Jacques on Hong Kong

    Professor Zhang Weiwei and Martin Jacques discuss the recent unrest in Hong Kong on Episode 35 of ‘CHINA NOW’.

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  • Duterte’s ‘pivot to China’

    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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  • 12 September 2019

    ‘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

  • 10 September 2019

    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

  • 6-7 September 2019

    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

  • Chinese governance highly distinctive, remarkably effective

    Martin Jacques discusses Chinese governance with People’s Daily Online on 5 July 2019.

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  • No time for wishful thinking

    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. (more…)