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What Keeps Xi Up at Night: Beijing’s Internal and External Challenges

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Hearing on “What Keeps Xi Up at Night: Beijing’s Internal and External Challenges"

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106

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9:30 AM – 9:35 AM: Opening Remarks: Senator James M. Talent and Senator Carte P. Goodwin

9:35 AM – 11:05 AM:  Panel I: The Threat from Within: “Party-ification” and Internal Threats to CCP Rule

• Jude Blanchette, Senior Advisor and China Practice Lead, Crumpton Group (Testimony)

• Timothy Heath, Senior International Defense Researcher, RAND Corporation (Testimony, Addendum)

• Andrew Wedeman, Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University (Testimony)

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM:  Panel II: Domestic Dilemmas: Beijing’s Slowing Growth and Technological Dependency

• Michael Hirson, Practice Head, China and Northeast Asia, Eurasia Group (Testimony)

• Nicholas Borst, Vice President and Director of China Research, Seafarer Capital (Testimony)

• Greg Levesque, Managing Director, Pointe Bello (Testimony)

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Lunch Break

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM:  Panel III: Backlash from Abroad: The Limits of Beijing’s Power to Shape its External Environment

• Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Blasko, U.S. Army (Ret.), Independent Analyst (Testimony)

• Rush Doshi, Brookings-Yale Postdoctoral Fellow (Testimony)

• Lindsey Ford, Director of Political-Security Affairs, Asia Society Policy Institute (Testimony)

3:15 PM – 3:20 PM: Closing Remarks

3:20 PM:  Adjourn

Transcript
February 7, 2019 Hearing Transcript4.83 MB

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