What Does China Want?

China’s significance as the era’s most successful autocracy has begged a pressing question: is Beijing attempting to export authoritarianism to the rest of the world? While President Xi Jinping has denied any such effort, experts have warned of China’s intent to spread autocracy through various means, including attempts to weaken global peacekeeping institutions like the United Nations and the dissemination of disinformation to discredit democracy. As a massive global power, however, China also seemingly seeks stability and cooperation with certain democracies. What exactly does China want from the international community, and what is it willing to settle for? How does its long-standing desire to take over Taiwan figure into its diplomacy?

Join us Wednesday, December 4th, 2024, at 11:00 am EST // 4:00 pm GMT, for another installment of Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues.

This event is co-sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University) and the Future of the Humanities Project (Georgetown University and Blackfriars Hall and Campion Hall, Oxford).

Featured:

Ning Leng, assistant professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Michael Oborne, former OECD official, Paris

Zoe Reed, chair, Society for Anglo Chinese Understanding 

Michael Scott (moderator), senior dean, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford

Sanford J. Ungar (moderator), director, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University