Chinese Studies Public Lecture

February 11, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319re Hall 319 (Tokioka Room)

Wednesday, February 11, 12:00 noon

Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

“China’s Two Silk Roads and the Community of Common Destiny in Asia”

David Arase, Johns Hopkins SAIS Nanjing University Center for Chinese & American Studies

In 2013, Xi Jinping announced a pair of initiatives that aims to restructure the Eurasian economy and geo-politics. The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road are part of Xi Jinping’s China Dream, and the idea is to build a comprehensive trans-Eurasian network of economic connectivity that will help sustain China’s growth momentum for decades and draw the countries of Eurasia into the gravitational field of China’s growing economy. China expects its surrounding neighbors to join it in a “community of common destiny.” The rest of Eurasia will form a culturally diverse but economically integrated division of labor shaped by China’s trade and financial interests. If it is fully successful, the end result will be “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” and the rebirth of a China-centered world.

David Arase has published four books on East Asian politics and international relations, and his fifth, tentatively titled China’s Rise and East Asian Order, is under publication review. His most recent book (co-edited with T. Akaha), The U.S.–Japan alliance: balancing soft and hard power in East Asia (Nissan Institute/Routledge, 2010), won the 2011 Ohira Memorial Foundation Special Prize. Before joining the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2011, where he is Resident Professor of International Politics, Dr. Arase taught for 22 years in the Politics Department at Pomona College, in Claremont, CA. In the past year, in addition to teaching full time at HNC, he has also been a visiting research fellow at the National Institute of Defense Studies in Tokyo, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.


Event Sponsor
Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at UHM, Mānoa Campus

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(808) 956-8891, china@hawaii.edu

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