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How Does Beijing View U.S.-China “Decoupling”?

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Julian Gerwertz – CWP Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University

This talk analyzes trends in Chinese views of U.S.-China interdependence from Xi Jinping’s rise to the COVID-19 pandemic. As U.S.-China relations have sharply deteriorated, the prospect of “decoupling” is looming larger for leaders in both Beijing and Washington. But it remains unclear how that process will play out, and how far it will go. How do China’s leaders and other Chinese elites think about these prospects? How will U.S.-China decoupling affect China’s domestic evolution and its global role?

This event will be conducted online via Zoom. Please register here.

Event organized by China and The World Program and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy

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Jessica Chen Weiss – Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University

How does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions? The Chinese leadership has been at once a revisionist, defender, reformer, and free-rider in the international system—insisting rigidly on issues that are central to its domestic survival, while showing flexibility on issues that are more peripheral. To illuminate this variation and prospects for conflict and cooperation, Weiss will discuss her new book project, which theorizes and illustrates the domestic-international linkages in Beijing’s approach to issues ranging from sovereignty and homeland disputes to climate change and COVID-19.

This event will be conducted online via Zoom. Please register here.

Organized by China and the World Program and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

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Charting a Tibetan Cartography

Please join us for a lecture with:

Kenneth Bauer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College

Moderated by:

Eveline Washul, Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Drawing upon fieldwork in western Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the eastern Tibetan Plateau as well as historical and contemporary maps, I will argue that there is a recognizable but as yet underappreciated body of knowledge and traditions that comprise a Tibetan cartography. In addition to describing a coherent set of representational and embodied practices that were foundational to Tibetan efforts to map their worlds, I will argue that mapping practices were, in fact, integral to governance in pre-1950s Tibet. Though the Tibetan state may justly be called “minimal” (Jansen 2019) prior to assimilation by the People’s Republic of China, the delineation and claiming of territory through mapping occurred at multiple levels and was, as Scott (1995) instructs, one way that the state ‘saw’ its territory. Even as we recognize aspects of cartographic practices that are shared between contemporary scientific and Tibetan approaches, the case of Tibet can also catalyze an expanded notion of geography beyond the material bounds and geopolitical purposes to which scientific cartographers aspire, but also limit themselves.

This event will be streamed live on WEAI’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/WeatherheadEastAsianInstitute/live. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Modern Tibetan Studies Program.

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