January 2016

US-China Bridge A Newsletter of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the University of Denver’s

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Journal of Contemporary China Special Issue Conferences

The Rise of China: Hedging and Counter-Hedging in the Asia Pacific Two-Part Conference in Beijing and Singapore

The CCUSC co-sponsored a sequence of two conferences in Beijing and Singapore in 2015 to discuss papers on the topic of Hedging and Counter-Hedging. At the first conference on May 31, 2015 at Beijing Foreign Affairs University, 13 papers were presented and discussed; of these, six papers were selected to be presented and discussed at the second conference, a JCC special issue workshop, held at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on September 29, 2015. All papers presented at these conferences have been translated into Chinese to be published as a book. Additionally, the five following papers will be published in upcoming issues (v.25, issues 100 and 101, 2016), of the JCC: Suisheng Zhao, “The Rise of China: Hedging and Geostrategic Balance in East Asia”, Cheng-Chwee Kuik, “How Do Weaker States Hedge? Unpacking ASEAN States' Alignment Behavior Towards China”, Li Mingjiang, “From Look-West to Act-West: Xinjiang’s Role in China-Central Asian Relations”, Kei Koga, “The Rise of China and Japan's Balancing Strategy: Critical Junctures and Policy Shifts in the 2010s”, and Hoo Tiang Boon, “The Hedging Prong in India’s Evolving China Strategy”.

China Model Revisited Workshop in Shanghai

On December 16, 2015 the CCUSC, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing and the School of International and Public Affairs in Shanghai Jiao Tong University co-sponsored the China Model Revisited Workshop at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. This workshop was the second half of the China Model conference previously held at the University of Denver on May 1st 2015. Papers presented at this conference included “The China Model Revisited: Has China Found a Unique Model of Modernization?” by Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver), “Law in the China Model 2.0; Evolving Roles at Home and Abroad un Xi Jinping” by Jacques deLisle (School of Law, University of Pennsylvania), “A Dynamic China Model 2.0; Co-evolution of Economics and Politics” by Cheng Ling and Barry Naughton (University of California, San Diego), “Keeping China Stable for Growth: The Logic and Limits of the Stability Maintenance Regime” by Dali L. Yang (University of Chicago) and “Militarism and the China Model; The case of National Defense Education” by Christopher R. Hughes (Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science). Comments on the papers were provided by Zhong Yang, Lin Yan, Lu Ming, Lin Gang, and Geng Shu all from Shanghai Universities. Papers from this workshop will be published in a special upcoming edition of the Journal of Contemporary China in 2017.

Fall 2015 Jackson/Ho China Forum Recap January 2016

September 25, 2015 - "China in the World Economy" was presented by Joanna R. Shelton who served as Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Trade Policy, as staff of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, and at the US Treasury Department.

October 5, 2015- CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections - A program co-sponsored by the Center for China-US Cooperation at the University of Denver and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Our program included a live webcast from Washington D.C. featuring Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury; Sheldon Day, mayor, Thomasville, Alabama; and Daniel Rosen, founding partner, Rhodium Group, moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Following the webcast, our onsite speaker Dr. Tom Gold, professor of sociology University of California, Berkeley, and executive director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, discussed "X's and O's: Post-Game Analysis of the Xi-Obama Summit".

October 29, 2015 - "China: Then and Now" was presented by Ambassador Nicholas Platt, a long-time China specialist, three-time U.S. Ambassador (Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines), former president of the Asia society, and author of the published memoir China Boys, was one of the State Department officials accompanied President Nixon on his historic visit to China in 1973. As a young diplomatic officer in the early 1960s, when Communist China was firmly closed to the west, Nicholas Platt took the unusual step of studying Mandarin. This put him in a key position when U.S. relations to China suddenly opened. Overseeing numerous contacts and exchanges with China, and a frequent visitor and lecturer in the PRC, Platt is in a unique position to compare those early days of diplomatic contact to relations with the

West today, as China now emerges as a major player on the world stage and an economic Power house.

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The John and Vivian Sabel Award of the best article in The Journal of Contemporary China

To celebrate the publication of the 100th issue (July 2016 issue) and the 25th anniversary (2017)

of the Journal of Contemporary China, the journal is happy to announce the launch of the annual John

and Vivian Sabel Award for the best article published in the journal, starting in 2016.

The award carries a US$1,000 cash prize, and the awardee will be invited to speak at the Josef

Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, before a reception/dinner in the

awardee’s honor. The selection criteria for the award are citation rates and nomination by the

editorial board members as well as general readers.

John and Vivian Sabel became interested in the Josef Korbel School over the past several years

and have attended many programs sponsored the by School’s academic centers of excellence.

They chose to support the Center for China-US Cooperation in an effort to help expose the

community to the ever changing field of international relations and specifically China and East

Asia as the world slants to that dynamic region. John Sabel recently noted, “The Korbel School is

one of the most respected academic centers dealing with foreign policy and we are glad to make a

small contribution to support it.”