This is a complete transcript of the China and Russia discussion, chaired by Alicia Kearns MP. She was joined by Sergey Radchenko, Bonny Lin and Maria Repnikova.
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Rui Ma, Rogier Creemers and John Lee give their expert take on the evolution of China’s tech strategy, what’s driving its tech developments and where the UK Government should focus its energies.
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Trade experts David Henig and Wendy Cutler discuss the reasons behind the UK’s application to join the trans-pacific trade bloc and whether China is also on the cusp of gaining entry.
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Jude Blanchette joined Tom Tugendhat for a conversation on where Xi Jinping and the CCP stand - domestically and abroad - at the end of 2021.
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Chair of the China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat MP was joined by Desmond Shum for a conversation on Desmond's recent book Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China, a rare look at the inner workings of the Chinese Communist Party.
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A panel of Amber Rudd, Isabel Hilton and Alex Wang discuss the diplomatic and domestic dynamics of China’s climate change policies, and whether the UK can influence the pace of China’s movements.
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Two data experts from AidData, Bradley Parks (Executive Director) and Dr Ammar Malik (Senior Research Scientist), joined us to discuss their findings from their recent paper: Banking on the Belt and Road. The paper draws on a new dataset covering 13,427 Chinese development projects in 165 countries, worth over $843 billion.
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The FT’s Global China Editor, James Kynge, joined us to discuss his perspective on how the next generation of technology is shaping geopolitics. Over half of global trade is digital, and trust issues have suddenly become front and centre to global trade and investment. The discussion also touched on China's pursuit for self-reliance, Beijing's policies towards big tech and how the digital currency could affect the internationalisation of the renminbi.
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