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17:45   Registration
18:00   Opening Remarks
18:05   Presentation
18:15   Fireside Chat
18:45   Q&A
19:05   Closing Remarks
19:10   Book Signing
19:20   End

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Cross-strait tensions have escalated in recent years, leading people all over the world to ask whether such escalation will end with an invasion of Taiwan and war between China and United States. What are the prospects that current tensions will evolve into war?  What would war between these two superpowers look like? What implications would such a conflict hold for the rest of the world?

Join Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) for a discussion on one of the most critical geopolitical issues of our time with Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong Baptist University and Professor Ying Chan, ASHK Scholar-in-Residence and founding director of The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, as they consider the ideas and questions presented in Professor Cabestan’s latest book, Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace.

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Senior Researcher Emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), attached to the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE) of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, and Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also Senior Researcher at Asia Centre, Paris, Associate Research Fellow at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong and a Non-Resident Visiting Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. His most recent publications include China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship?, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 and Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Ying Chan is an award-winning Journalist, media consultant, and educator. She was a professor and founding director of The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre from 1998 to 2016. Prior to that, she spent 23 years in New York City with the New York Daily News, NBC news, and Chinese-language dailies, covering immigration, campaign finance, and US-China relations. She is co-founder of the Environmental Reporting Collective, a global network of journalists in Asia and Africa, and is on the board of management of Digital Asia Hub.

About Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace:

China’s geopolitical role in Asia changes with each day, particularly regards to its intentions with Taiwan. However, many analyses and predictions on China’s future do not go beyond the familiar “Thucydides Trap”.  In Facing China, Jean-Pierre Cabestan takes a greater look at the conflict between China and the United States, examining it alongside not only Taiwan, but  other points of conflict such as the South China Sea, the Senkaku Islands, and the Sino-Indian border. Russia’s war on Ukraine and what it means for a war over Taiwan is also examined. Cabestan explores and weighs the different ways in which China and the United States might approach a war with each other.

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