On Tuesday, September 26th, economist Yuen Yuen Ang visited Reed Publishing and delivered a lecture titled “Learnings and Misconceptions from the Rise of China.”
Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Science and Economics at Johns Hopkins University. How did China escape from the crisis of poverty?p and China’s Gilded Age.
Her lectures were a combination of personal, academic, and inspirational. She not only advanced the argument that China’s main success depends on encouraging and leveraging existing talent and knowledge, but not on specific laws or infrastructure. She argues that good economic policy, especially for developing countries, depends on harnessing “indigenous wisdom and resources,” and that the strategies and practices adopted by developing countries are “very different” when compared to developed and northern countries. He argued that it would look “wrong” and “wrong”. Western countries.
Anne provided context for her speech by talking about how her scholarship was created and received. She advocated liberal arts education, questioned traditional economic theory that development requires growth first through good institutions or foreign aid, and advocated systemic resistance to both racial and gender bias. He said that he initially struggled to gain traction in his field, as he faced significant challenges.
She also focused on modern China and Sino-American competition. Wang argued that the most important front in the U.S.-China competition is the global competition for talent, both in and outside of science, because “great talent can achieve anything.” Additionally, she argued that Asians are a race that the United States is losing, largely due to xenophobic policies and ethnic profiling of Asian faculty.
Looking to the future, Ang argued that the U.S.-China competition will go nowhere no matter who wins the 2024 election, but it may become more brazen and less realistic under the Trump administration. He also argued that while war between China and the United States was once impossible, rising tensions have made it less likely. She called this escalation of conflict a harbinger of a “new Cold War.”
Mr. An strongly criticized China’s zero-coronavirus policy, calling it economically destructive, and argued that by 2023, China has passed a golden age of development and is beginning a new era in Chinese history.
The Rising China lecture series will resume on October 24th.
