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| Could China become a democracy in a not-too-distant future? Some have predicted that the country’s unprecedented economic growth and middle-class expansion will naturally lead to a liberalization of China’s regime and a move toward democracy. Not so, according to Jean-Pierre Cabestan who, in a recent book, contends that the Chinese Communist Party will continue to adapt and prosper in the coming decades under its well-established authoritarian rule. Influenced by China’s culture and the former Soviet Union’s ideology, most Chinese are not asking for democracy, preferring security, prosperity and social stability to political freedom. Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a respected academic voice on contemporary China. He is a professor in political science at Hong Kong Baptist University, and is a senior research fellow in France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has published more than 15 books, mostly about China and Taiwan, and closely follows the China-Africa connection. His latest book will be available for purchase at this luncheon.
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Speaker: Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan,Professor in Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
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The Human Rights Press Awards are run by the FCC, Amnesty International Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 24th annual awards were announced on May 6, 2020. See the winners here.
