Susan Shirk on U.S.-China Economic Interdependence
China pushes 'progress, constant progress'
11/15/2012
Calum MacLeod,
USA Today
Billionaire developer Pan Shiyi toasted VIP guests on the rooftop of his latest, space-age property, in sight of storied buildings from China's imperial past and communist present.
The curving Galaxy Soho, designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, opened last month with a "creativity celebration" for Beijing's movers and shakers.
China is enjoying a golden age for construction and design in the world's largest building market, said Pan, who has more than 7 million followers on his microblog.
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Susan Shirk is the chair of the 21st Century China Program and Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. She also is director emeritus of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and chair of the IGCC International Advisory Board.
In 1993, she founded, 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.
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