Asia Rising (Asia in the World): Geo Cultural Conversations with Dr. Vishakha N. Desai: Rising China: What It Means for the World

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Newspaper accounts and new publications warn us about the decline of American power on the global stage as China continues to expand its global foot print. Indeed, for the first time in more than two centuries, the Euro-American dominance in the world is fading as the economic and geopolitical power of Asia is rising. How should we think about the contemporary power dynamics in Asia in the context of their millennial cultures? What are the implications of this power shift on the global stage? With Howard French, Jiayang Fan and Arthur Kroeber.

Dr. Vishakha N. Desai is President Emerita of Asia Society and senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University where she also teaches in the graduate program on Global Thought.

Howard French teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University and is the author of Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past helps shape China’s Push for Global Power, Knopf: New York, 2017, China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa, Knopf: New York, 2014.

Jiayang Fan, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, writes frequently on China, U.S-China Relations and Chinese American issues.

Arthur R. Kroeber is founding partner and head of research at Gavekal Dragonomics, a China-focused economic research consultancy with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. He also edits the firm’s flagship publication, China Economic Quarterly. Before founding Dragonomics in 2002, he worked for 15 years as a financial and economic journalist in China and other Asian countries. His book China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (2016).