Join the India China Institute (ICI) for a two-part CHINA Town Hall on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:00-9:00pm EST.  

Confronting the global challenges of climate change and communicable disease cannot be achieved by any single country, but must be met by constructive cooperation among nations. Although the United States and China will compete in many areas, it is imperative they join forces to face these universal problems that affect global stability and endanger the world’s most vulnerable people.

1. The first event is a panel from 7:00-8:00pm EST on Health and Climate in China, sponsored by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Margaret Hamburg (National Academy of Medicine), Ryan Hass (Brookings Institution), and Angel Hsu (Yale-National University of Singapore) will consider the roles of the United States and China in addressing these two major transnational issues. The conversation will be moderated by Merit Janow (Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs). 

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2. Following the panel discussion, at 8:00-9:00pm EST ICI will host a talk by Jennifer Turner, Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, titled “Same Bed, Different Dreams: Is There a Path to Revive U.S.-China Climate and Environmental Relations?”

Discussant: 

Jennifer Turner has served as Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum for nearly two decades. She is a widely-quoted expert on U.S.-China environmental cooperation as well as climate-related challenges and governance issues facing the world’s most populous country. As head of the Center’s Global Choke Point multimedia reporting initiative, Turner has worked to combine on-the-ground research with visual storytelling on water-energy-food nexus issues in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. She and her team are currently focusing heavily on U.S.-China climate actions, ocean plastic innovation in China and Indonesia, and Chinese distant fishing fleets. Her favorite new project is creating an educational video game on ocean plastics together with the Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative. Check out her work at www.wilsoncenter.org and blogs at www.newsecuritybeat.org.

Moderator: 

Mark Frazier is Professor of Politics at The New School, where he also serves as Co-Director of the India China Institute. His research interests focus on labor and social policy in China, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization, migration, and citizenship in China and India. His latest book, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010), The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (2018). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times, Daedalus, and The Diplomat.

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If you encounter technical difficulties during the ICI webinar, you may view the first panel via the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, then return to this webinar for the discussion with Dr. Turner, beginning at 8:00 p.m. If you have questions about registering or problems with your link, please contact ICI at indiachina@newschool.edu. 

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