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China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom

Please join us for a lecture:

China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom

Roger Garside, Former Diplomat, Development Banker, and Capital Market Development Advisor

Moderated by: Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

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This short book predicts—contrary to the prevailing consensus—that China’s leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d’état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China’s one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to democracy and the rule of law. Long-time diplomat, development banker, and author Roger Garside draws on his deep knowledge of Chinese politics and economics first to develop a detailed scenario of how these events may unfold, and then—in the main body of the book—to explain why. His gripping, persuasive account of how Chinese leaders plot and plan away from the public eye is unique in published literature.

Garside argues that under Xi’s overconfident leadership, China is on a collision course with an America that is newly awakened out of complacency. As Xi’s rivals look abroad, they are alarmed that he is blind to the reactions that China’s actions have provoked from the world’s strongest power and its allies. In domestic affairs, Xi’s rivals recognize that economic and social change without political reform have created problems that require not just new leaders but a new system of government. Security abroad and stability at home demand a revolution to which Xi is implacably opposed. To save China—and themselves—from catastrophe, they must remove him and end the dictatorship he is determined to defend. But their will and capacity to do so depend crucially on how liberal democracies act. Garside’s scenario shows America leading its allies in creating the conditions in which Xi’s rivals move against him.

This event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

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Helping America Regain Its Mojo: Singapore’s Policy Towards the United States After Trump

Singapore has regarded, and continues to do so, the United States as the indispensable power whose global power and reach Singaporeans are seen as invaluable to the stability, security, and prosperity of Asia. This belief was sorely tested during the presidency of Donald Trump and by China’s growing assertiveness in Southeast Asia. The transition to a Biden-led America will unlikely change Singapore’s perspective on and policy toward the US. That said, its view of the US has not meant and does not mean a commitment to take Washington’s side on every international issue and/or dispute the latter might have with other major powers, especially where Singapore’s interests are thought to be at risk.

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Presenter:

See Seng Tan is President and CEO of International Students Inc., a faith-based nonprofit in the United States, and concurrently Professor of International Relations at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His latest books include The Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia (2019), The Legal Authority of ASEAN as a Security Institution (2019), and The European Union’s Security Relations with Asian Partners (forthcoming 2021).

Discussant:

Amy Searight is senior associate for Asia and previously served as senior adviser and director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Searight has a wealth of experience on Asia policy—spanning defense, diplomacy, development, and economics — in both government and academia. Most recently, she served in the Department of Defense (DOD) as deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that appointment, she served as principal director for East Asian security at DOD and as senior adviser for Asia in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She has also served on the policy planning staff and as special adviser for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in the State Department as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow.

Moderator:

Ann Marie Murphy is a Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, and 2019-2010 ASEAN Research Program Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Murphy’s research interests include international relations and comparative politics in Southeast Asia, U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, and governance of non-traditional security issues. Dr. Murphy is a founding partner of the New York Southeast Asia Network and is currently completing a book on the impact of democracy on Indonesian foreign policy with the generous support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.

This event is part of the Southeast Asia Views America: Perceptions, Policies & Prospects virtual conference.

This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) and the APEC Study Center at Columbia University.

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An Uyghur History of China and the World: The Tarikh-i Hamidi as a Colonial, Transcultural Text

May 19, 1:00–2:30 PM EDT, 2021

Speaker: Eric Schluessel, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, George Washington University

Moderator: Manan Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University

The Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī (1836–1917) is celebrated as a monument of Uyghur literature and the preeminent Muslim history of nineteenth-century Xinjiang (East Turkestan). Yet it is more than a chronicle–it is a history of the world as seen from the heart of Eurasia and an argument about the nature of politics and faith. Sayrāmī’s work is also multilayered, polyvocal text, and one that bears recontextualization and rereading through different analytical approaches. This talk explores the Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī in terms of its interaction with other Muslim and Chinese sources and as a colonial, transcultural text that advances insightful observations of Chinese power and new ideas about its workings.

Register for the Zoom link: https://reurl.cc/OXZWXy

This event is a part of the lecture series “China, Inner Asia, and the World:Mongol and Qing Empires in Comparative Perspectives” sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Event Contact Information: Ling-Wei Kung lk2627@columbia.edu

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