RUNDOWN
12:15     Registration
12:30     Opening remarks
12:40     Discussion with President’s Circle and Corporate Members
13:55     Closing remarks
14:00     End

This informal, off-the-record briefing is free of charge for President’s Circle and Corporate Members. Registration is required.

Registrants are invited to bring a packed lunch and eat during the discussion. No meal will be served.

Professor Li Cheng, ASHK Scholar-in-Residence and Founding Director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong, has just returned from the Munich Security Conference. In an exclusive briefing for ASHK President’s Circle and Corporate members, he will share his impressions from the conference, key takeaways, and his expectations for geopolitics in the coming year.

Li Cheng is professor of political science and founding director of the Centre on the Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li’s research areas include the transformation of political leaders, the Chinese middle class, technological development in China, Sino-U.S. relations, and global governance. Li is the author and editor of 17 books, including more recently Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement, The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China, and Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era.

Prior to joining HKU, Li served as director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, where he remains a nonresident senior fellow. Dr. Li is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto, a nonresident fellow at Yale University’s Paul Tsai China Center, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Li received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University.

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