Barry Naughton, Susan Shirk participate in UCLA's "China & the World" conference
06/30/2010
UCLA International Institute
The May 24 conference at the James West Alumni Center focused on China's engagement in key international issues. The conference was sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress and the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the International Institute.
China & the World Panel 2: China's Role in Global Economic and Climate Policy,
featuring Barry Naughton.
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China & the World Panel 3: What Can the US Do to Shape China's Engagement?,
featuring Susan Shirk.
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Professor Naughton is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance, and China's transition to a market economy. Recent research focuses on regional economic growth in the People's Republic of China and the relationship between foreign trade and investment and regional growth. He is also completing a general textbook on the Chinese economy. Recently completed projects have focused on Chinese trade and technology, in particular, the relationship between the development of the electronics industry in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the growth of trade and investment among those economies.
Professor Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS. Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since. During 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia. She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
