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In the United States, policy discussions about China tend to focus on growing competition, as this emerging power increasingly challenges America’s dominance on the world stage. In his new book, China’s Next Act, Penn’s Scott M. Moore argues that the emphasis actually needs to be on balancing this competition with cooperation.
As the country with the world’s largest population, its second-largest economy, and growing political and military influence, China will have a major role to play in meeting shared global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and the rise of new technologies like artificial intelligence. These urgent global issues are already changing China’s economy, its foreign policy, and its relationship with the wider world.
Should the US compete or collaborate with China on issues like ecological security, pandemic response, or scientific advancement? What might our shared ecological and technological landscape look like? And how should we prepare for a future increasingly shaped by China? In this book talk, Moore will discuss these questions and others.
Speaker
Scott Moore is the director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at Penn Global. His research interests center on environmental sustainability, technology, and international relations. His first book, Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins, examines how climate change and other pressures affect the likelihood of conflict over water within countries. Prior to Penn, Moore worked for the World Bank Group and served as environment, science, technology, and health officer for China at the US Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on climate change. Moore’s research and commentary on a wide range of environmental and international affairs issues has appeared in a range of leading scholarly journals and media outlets, including Nature, the China Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Times. Moore holds doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
Moderator
Regina M. Abrami is the Chang Sun Term Professor and faculty director of the Global Program at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania with appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Management. She is a multi-year recipient of a Wharton Teaching Award for her course on China and Global Business. Her areas of expertise broadly include international and comparative political economy, with a special focus on China, geoeconomics, industrial policy, and international business. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, Harvard Business Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems. She has authored dozens of China-focused case studies, as well as Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth. She is a member of the Perry World House Faculty Advisory Council.
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