China's Chance To Lead: Acquiring Global Influence Via Infrastructure Development And Digitalization

Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Hoover Institution | Stanford University

The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to China's Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 from 12:00 - 1:15 pm PT.

How is China acquiring global influence? How does China align with autocracies as partners to its global ambitions? And how is China using technology imports and the spread of Chinese technical standards to assert dominance over the emerging digital economy? Richard Carney will explore these questions in a talk based on findings from his forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, China's Chance to Lead.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Richard Carney engages in political economy research with a focus on business-government relations. He is the author of Authoritarian Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize for work on the Asia Pacific. The framework developed in the book was used for a paper on corporate social responsibility which won the best paper award in emerging economies research at the 2018 Academy of International Business Annual Meeting. His next book, China's Chance to Lead, will be published later this year by Cambridge University Press. He has published numerous articles in international business, finance, and political science journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of International Political Economy. Professor Carney is also an advisor to the World Bank for its flagship project ‘Businesses of the State’. Presently, Professor Carney is at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. He received his PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power and works closely with government and civil society partners to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. Most recently, he co-authored Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks in Research Collaboration with China (2021).

[sleepyjoe]

lol they're eating while he talks

professional

[dimitristsagdis]

Emerging market and developing countries vs advanced economies share of world GDP graph, I appreciate it comes from IMF so the speaker is not responsible for its making/validity, but only interpretation and this is my main point that the picture he interprets as being painted is a product of the classification criteria. If instead he had used the World Bank high income vs medium+low income countries classification, then he would get a very different picture of two lines almost moving equidistantly in sync for the same period. Obviously the IMF group of advanced economies encompass approx. 40 economies with a fraction of the world's population and interesting the 50-50 point is 2007 the start of the great recession that wiped out a large part of the advanced economies GDP from which several advanced economies are still trying to recover.

[mktlateshow]

Too many distractions in this picture, eating and the sound not clear. These make you loose audience in the 1st 2 mins

[goldfishi]

the easiest way to answer the curiosities is to ask what we already do and why we do it here. For all the same often sinister reasons.

[charlesmackey]

It's all about Chinese control of their investments.

[AQuietNight]

The form of government isn't as important as how honest are the people who run that government.
China is empire building and they are ready to spend big bucks to do it. China is establishing a natural
minerals conveyor belt that brings them base materials and on the return trip send back their
factory goods. They are not doing it to be nice, they are doing it to make big money.
China doesn't want tv's from Nepal or Saudi Arabia. China isn't looking for noodles from Malaysia.
They want to sell railroads to Malaysia. They sell the labor, the locomotives, the freight cars and
the signaling systems. So they hand out large loans and get these countries to pay for it all.
For China it's win-win, meaning they make money on both sides of the equation.

[BitcoinMeister]

In the case of Malaysia vs Indonesia you do not bring up Singapore. Singapore fears China while at the same time it is geographically stuck to Malaysia. Maybe one reason for China pouring money into Malaysia is to intimidate Singapore.