Asia Centre

Wednesday 5 March 2008, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m : CAPE, Foreign Press Center

Meeting with Dr Bates Gill

Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Dr Gill is the first US citizen to hold the SIPRI Directorship. Dr Gill held until 2007 the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution, where he was the inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

His most recent book, published in February 2007, is entitled Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Press, 2007).

This meeting was introduced by Sophie Malibeaux (RFI - Asia Presse) and Christophe Carle (Asia Centre Associate Rresearcher)

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