Club Dinner Panel: The 19th Party Congress – Implications for China’s Future

Date: 3 Oct 2017 06:45 PM — 06:45 PM | Venue:

PANEL
The 19th Party Congress –
Implications for China’s Future

PANELISTS Dr. Willy Lam is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for China Studies and the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Professor and Head, Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dr. Chloé Froissart is the Director of the Tsinghua University Sino-French Centre in Social Sciences in Beijing.
Dr. Bill Taylor is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
	Tuesday, October 3, 2017 6:45pm – Light Buffet Dinner Served 7:15pm – Panel 1st Floor

The forthcoming 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will hold the key to political, economic and foreign-policy developments well into the 2030s. Will Xi anoint a successor among the CCP’s Sixth-Generation rising stars? Even more pivotal is whether, having consolidated his power, Xi will turn his attention to much-needed reforms in the political, economic and social sectors. Will Xi, with his enhanced powers, take a more hawkish line in China’s problematic relations with the U.S., Japan, South and North Korea and ASEAN states. The panel also delved into the evolving political institutions of the Party-State; the welfare of laborers and farmers; as well as the fast-changing civil society. Panelist Dr. Willy Lam is the editor of the just-published Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party (2017). The rest of the panelists are contributors to this Handbook.