Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. This panel discusses China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impact that today’s dramatic developments will have on China’s presence in Eastern Europe and its BRI plans.
Panelists:
Jinghan Zeng
Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University and Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Jeremy Garlick
Director of the J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations and China Studies at Prague University of Economics and Business
Arseny Sivitsky
Co-Founder and Director of Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies
Moderators:
Nargis Kassenova
Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans
Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
This event is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
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Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. This panel discusses China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impact that today’s dramatic developments will have on China’s presence in Eastern Europe and its BRI plans.
Panelists:
Jinghan Zeng
Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University and Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Jeremy Garlick
Director of the J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations and China Studies at Prague University of Economics and Business
Arseny Sivitsky
Co-Founder and Director of Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies
Moderators:
Nargis Kassenova
Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans
Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
This event is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Shaping China’s Narratives: How Journalists Report on China in the World
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
1 hour 19 minutes 41 seconds
3 years ago
Shaping China’s Narratives: How Journalists Report on China in the World
China is constantly in the global media limelight due to its growing presence and influence throughout the world. Journalists reporting on this rising superpower play a crucial role in explaining the complexities of its domestic developments and international activities to local publics. This is a formidable task, made even more difficult by the increasingly constrained environment in China forcing most critical journalists leave the country and work from outside its borders. This panel brings together reporters from different parts of the world to discuss how they see their role in shaping and challenging narratives on China and how they approach challenges that they face in conducting their work.
Speakers:
Ananth Krishnan
China Correspondent, The Hindu Newspaper
Hui (Lulu) Ning
Senior International News Journalist, Initium Media
Alexander Gabuev
Senior Fellow and Chair, Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program, Carnegie Moscow Center
Moderator:
Lucy Hornby
Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Organizers:
Nargis Kassenova
Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans
Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
This event was co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. This panel discusses China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impact that today’s dramatic developments will have on China’s presence in Eastern Europe and its BRI plans.
Panelists:
Jinghan Zeng
Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University and Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Jeremy Garlick
Director of the J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations and China Studies at Prague University of Economics and Business
Arseny Sivitsky
Co-Founder and Director of Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies
Moderators:
Nargis Kassenova
Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans
Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
This event is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
