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The last session of the brainstorming group will take place on June 24 at 9:30 am, at Asia Centre at Sciences Po. Ma Cheng-kun, associate professor at National Defense University (Taiwan), will introduce the debates on the following theme: “Views on PLA’s modernization among Chinese officers”. The roundtable will be held in English.
The observatory intends to bring together the points of views of experts and researchers interested in the different aspects of China’s rise: economy, diplomacy, politics, military affairs. Alltogether, eight roundtables and an international seminary will be organised within this session of the observatory. It involves monthly meetings in Paris and is supported by original discussion papers and followed up by summarized reports of the debates for participants. Participation to the group exclusively on invitation.
Informations : m.duchatel@centreasia.org
On June 27, 2008, Asia Centre held its annual seminar on Chinese Contemporary Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. More than five years after Hu Jintao was elected secretary general of the CCP, it is time for a preliminary assessment of his first mandate at the head of the Party and the State. In the aftermath of the 16th Party Congress in October 2002, he was viewed as a weak leader. His power was to be consolidated in almost every meaningful decision-making body within the Party. His agenda in terms of political reform and national strategy lacked transparency. This conference will tackle two main issues: Hu Jintao’s strategies to meet domestic and international challenges to the CCP’s power and legitimacy, and the changes introduced by the fourth generation of Chinese leaders in terms of decision-making. A group of scholars from Asia, the US, Europe and France (see below) has been working on the matter since last year and the seminar will be the occasion to make collective sense of their findings and to assess five years of politics in China under Hu Jintao.
Informations: m.duchatel@centreasia.org
Participants:
Stéphanie Balme is a senior research fellow at Sciences Po, Paris, based at the Law School of Tsinghua University, Beijing, where she is currently visiting professor. She has co-directed the Sciences Po Vietnam study group and has been a research associate and professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her latest publications include: co-edited with Michael Dowdle, Constitutionalism and judicial power in China, Palgrave-Macmillan CERI, 2008. Co-edited with Daniel Sabbagh Chine/ Etats-Unis : fascination et rivalités, Autrement-CERI, 2008. She received her Ph.D in political science from Sciences Po, Paris.
Richard Baum is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and director emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. He has written and edited nine books, including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (1996) and Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991). His latest book, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, will be published in 2009. Dr. Baum is the founder and list manager of Chinapol, an online discussion group for professional China analysts. He has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals in Chinese and East Asian Studies, and is a frequent commentator for CNN, National Public Radio, Voice of America and BBC World Service. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is an associate researcher to Asia Centre and a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. He currently heads the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was Director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. His most recent publications include Chine-Taiwan: la guerre est-elle concevable? La sécurité extérieure de Taiwan face à la menace de la Chine populaire, Paris, Economica, 2003; (with Benoît Vermander) La Chine et ses frontières. La confrontation Chine-Taiwan, Paris, Presses des Sciences Po, 2005, translated and published in Chinese as a special issue of the journal Renlai (Taipei), January 2007. He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China's political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Chien-min Chao is vice-director of the Foundation on International and Cross-strait Studies (FICS) in Taiwan, and professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei. He received his Ph.D from Southern Illinois University.
Wu-yue Chang is professor at Tamkang University Institute for Mainland China Studies, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D from National Chengchi University.
François Godement is President of Asia Centre and professor at Sciences Po, Paris. He is also the founder and former director of Centre Asie at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris (1985-2005). He helped found the European committee of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) which he chairs, and is a cofounder of CAEC (Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation). A consultant to the Policy planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he specialized in East Asian international relations and strategy, regional integration and Chinese contemporary affairs. François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (Paris), where he majored in history.
Karl Hallding heads Stockholm Environment Institute’s China Program and has followed and worked with China’s environment since the mid-1980s. He was the main author of UNDP’s China Human Development Report 2002, “Making Green Development a Choice” and participated in the expert team behind the 2007 OECD Environmental Performance Review of China, where he was responsible for drafting the chapter on “Environmental – Social Interface”. Mr Hallding is currently working with the China 50 Economist Forum on the China Economics of Climate Change Initiative, and is preparing a paper on China’s Climate and Energy Politics for the Swedish prime ministers office.
Heike Holbig is a senior research fellow at the German Institute of Global Studies (GIGA) Institute of Asian Studies, working in the field of China’s domestic politics. She is also the co-editor of China Aktuell – Journal of Current Chinese Affairs published by GIGA Institute of Asian Studies. She
holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Heidelberg University. Recent publications include „The Emergence of the Campaign to Open Up the West: Ideological formation, central decision-making, and the role of the provinces”, China Quarterly, no. 178, June 2004, and “Ideological Reform
and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era”, in: Heberer, Thomas and Schubert, Gunter (eds) Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London, Routledge, forthcoming August 2008.
Cheng Li is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is also the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College. He received his Ph.D from Princeton University. Dr. Li’s publications include Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform (1997), China’s Leaders: The New Generation (2001), Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges (2005), and China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (2008). He is currently completing a book manuscript on Urban Subcultures in Shanghai.
Cheng-kun Ma is an Associate Professor at the Institute of PLA Research, National Defense University, Republic of China (Taiwan). He has received his Ph.D. in China’s war behavior study at National Taiwan University, and has specialized in PLA affairs. His representative articles are “China’s security strategy and military development” and “China’s three warfares against Taiwan.” He publishes a monthly newsletter on Chinese military affairs, “PLA News Analysis, PNA”.
Thibaud Voïta is a research fellow at Asia Centre and a Ph.D candidate at Sciences Po, Paris. Currently in Beijing to conduct his field work and Asia Centre’s projects, his research deals with central and local government economic relations, with a special interest in transportation and energy sectors.
9 July 2007, Brussels. This event, co-organised with the European Policy Centre, presented to a wider audience the main recommendations that came out of the workshops held in Beijing in 2006-2007. The roundtable, supported by Alstom, the French Development Agency and BNP Paribas brought together experts, leading civil servants and business leaders from Europe and China.
On the platform were Sun Xuegong (Chinese delegation member to the EU), Zhao Hongtu (CICIR), P. Andrews-Speed (CEPMLP), Seán O’Regan (EU Council), J-F. Di Meglio (BNP Paribas), M. Meidan and A. Berkofsky (EPC).
14 June 2007, Paris. Asia Centre, Paris / U. of Haifa, Israel. This dialogue with Israeli experts of China was a wide-ranging examination of China’s strategies and military-related development. Given its situation in the heart of the Middle East, Israel pays very close attention to the increasingly diversified relations that China has developed with all the states of the region. These relations have been given a great impetus by Beijing’s growing external dependence on hydrocarbons. These issues were discussed with Yitzhak Shichor and Yoram Evron (U. of Haifa) and G. Wacker (DGAP), and put in the context of China’s foreign policy and the major international questions concerning the country.
Since 1993, CSCAP’s achievements in the area of preventive diplomacy have been noteworthy, owing to the efforts of six working groups focused on: maritime security; countering the proliferation of WMD; multilateral security frameworks in Northeast Asia; the prevention of human trafficking; peacekeeping; and energy security. In the context of the overall progress made within the CSCAP, the achievements of the first two working groups should be singled out.
25th and 26th Meetings of the Steering Committee
Kuala Lumpur 29 May 2006, Wellington 14 Dec. 2006. These meetings are important both for setting CSCAP’s development (determination of the major themes and subjects, analysis of proposed recommendations) and for the informal debates and discussions that take place on the sidelines and enable a better evaluation of the main trends in relation to regional security concerns.
F. Godement and K. von Hoesslin (researcher at the York Centre for International Security Studies & UN World Maritime U.) in turn represented the EUCSCAP at these meetings...
MARITIME SECURITY [CSCAP working group]
The aims of the working group (set in Kunming, Dec. 2004) are: to consider maritime capacity, identify the requirements for implementation of processes for cooperation in the region, analyse the inadequacies and deficiencies of the agreements currently in place, and draft concrete proposals of relevance to the ministers concerned. Since 2005, this working group, co-chaired by S. Bateman (Australia) and P. Das (India), has met three times to consider the subject "Capacity building for maritime cooperation" (New Delhi and Singapore in 2005, Kuala Lumpur on 27-28 May 2006). The mandate of the working group was extended in Wellington on 16-17 Dec. 2006, to include "The role of maritime security forces" and it approved an action plan for the ARF: "Maritime knowledge and awareness, the basic foundations of maritime security cooperation in Asia Pacific".
S. Boisseau du Rocher has participated in the group’s work since its inception and in the work of a subgroup (with Chinese and New Zealand representatives) focused on issues of awareness-raising in relation to maritime concerns; K. von Hoesslin similarly contributes his expertise by participating regularly in this working group for CSCAP Europe.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - WMD [CSCAP working group]
This working group, chaired by Brad Glosserman (CSIS), aims at redefining security standards in relation to non-proliferation by close monitoring of the international system. Since 2005, it has met five times to produce final recommendations for the ARF: "An Asia Pacific handbook and action plan to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Asia Pacific". In parallel, a subgroup on the monitoring of arms exports met for the second time in Beijing on 11 and 12 May 2006.
CSCAP Europe is active in this working group, through the participation of F. Umbach (DGAP), co-chair of CSCAP Europe, and B. Sitt (CESIM). T. de Champchesnel (CESIM) and D. Santoro (Macquarie U.) also take in the working group meetings through the "Young Leaders" program, an initiative of the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in close liaison with this working group. With the participation of approximately twenty young researchers and practitioners, this program promotes an exchange and dialogue amongst young professionals who are well-equipped in the field.
3rd meeting of the working group
26-27 Mar. 2006, Singapore. The agenda covered the following subjects: the global non-proliferation regime; nuclear energy and non-proliferation: what risks?; the PSI; the six-party talks and North Korea; and an Action Plan for non-proliferation in East Asia.
4th meeting of the working group
27-29 Nov. 2006, Danang. Thirty experts continued their work through in-depth sessions on: the global non-proliferation regime; regional problems and challenges; the PSI; developments in the Korean peninsula.
The question of “energy security” is not limited to the fi eld of economics or to the geopolitics of energy. It is addressed here as a whole and falls within a research project conducted in collaboration with the CEPMLP, the Social Sciences Unit in Beijing (Qinghua U.) and the French Embassy’s Economic and Trade Commission.
This series of three workshops conducted by Asia Centre between September 2006 and January 2007 in Beijing was designed to study the reforms to the Chinese energy sector with an emphasis on decision-making and implementation. The aim was to enable participants to gain a better understanding of the Chinese energy sector. The seminars provided an informal exchange and dialog framework, bringing together Chinese and Western experts, academics and business actors. Participation from the Chinese side consisted mainly of think tanks and research institutes (often affi liated to decision-making bodies), with additional participation from State run institutes and offi cial administrations. These workshops were supported by Alstom, BNP Paribas, the French Development Agency, Jones Day and Total.
[Coordination of the workshop of the Reseau Asie’s 3rd Congress – IMASIE]
28-30 Sept. 2005. While the ASEAN is broadening the scope of its dialogue, the political and economic centre of gravity of East Asia has gradually shifted towards China (Free Trade Agreements and Strategic Dialogue). However, the role played by China is not the only factor at work in this shift and the trend is not as clear as Beijing would like us to believe.The purpose of this workshop was to analyse the parameters that will influence the organisation of the region and lead China either to come to an arrangement with its partners or to jeopardize the emergence of a structured region.
La Chine et le Japon: des concurrents pour un “hégémon régional”? Premiers jalons pour une approche en EPI de l’Asie Orientale [China and Japan: Rivals for “Regional Hegemony”? First Steps towards an IPE Approach in East Asia], by C. Figuière and L. Guilhot (U. Pierre Mendès France – Grenoble II) / Les perspectives d’intégration économique en Asie de l’est sous l’influence de la Chine [Perpsectives for Economic Integration in East Asia under China’s Influence], by F. Nicolas (U. of Marne-la-Vallée) / Réorganisations régionales en Asie orientale: Peut-on parler de regionalisation ? [Regional Reorganisation in East Asia: To what extent is it a Regionalisation Process?] by S. Boisseau du Rocher / Intégration régionale en Asie et montée en puissance de la Chine: Perspective japonaise [Regional Integration in Asia and the Rise of China. A Japanese Perspective], by G. Delamotte.