China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat?
BOOK FORUMTuesday, July 11, 2000
11:00 a.m.
Featuring Liu Junning, Independent Scholar, Beijing; with comments by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and James A. Dorn, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Cato Institute
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This event celebrates the Cato Institute's release of China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? The distinguished contributors to this book, including noted scholar Liu Junning (who was recently in the news as a target of a "purge" of liberal intellectuals), consider both the short- and the long-run prospects for the evolution of a peaceful and prosperous "new China," after 50 years of communist rule. The likely accession of China to the World Trade Organization adds another crucial dimension to that country's relations with the United States and other countries. Whether China turns out to be a partner or a threat ultimately will depend, says Liu Junning in his chapter, "on the fate of liberalism in China: a liberal China will be a constructive partner; a nationalistic and authoritarian China will be an emerging threat." This book examines the complex issues surrounding that momentous choice.