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Zhiwu Chen and Heribert Dieter from Asia Global Institute, and 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow Ananth Krishnan shared their insights at the 3rd India Forum on China

The 3rd India Forum on China, organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in cooperation with Goa University, brought together leading experts from around the world, including former India Ambassador to China Ashok Kantha, Professor Zhiwu Chen and Professor Heribert Dieter from Asia Global Institute, and 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow Ananth Krishnan. Themed "China and Asia's Changing Politics", the leading annual conference on China was held in Goa, India from December 5 to 8.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOWS PROGRAM

The Asia Global Institute is now inviting applications for its 2020 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary and intensive leadership development initiative designed for mid-career professionals from around the world. Check out the program highlights.

International comparisons highlight the challenges for the NHS

Author: Layla McCay, 2017 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOW, ASIA GLOBAL INSTITUTE

Layla McCay, 2017 AsiaGlobal Fellow, says that if the UK is to maintain its efficiency gains while strengthening the resilience of the NHS it must integrate and innovate across health and care.

CGTN: 5G Roll Out/Advent of 6G

Speaker: Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor, Asia Global Institute

In the advent of 5G technology, Asia Global Institute Adjunct Associate Professor Yoshikazu Kato joins a CGTN panel on the race to roll out 6G technology.

Heribert Dieter, Director of Policy Research of Asia Global Institute, discussed the prospects of regional cooperation

Heribert Dieter, Director of Policy Research of Asia Global Institute, discussed the prospects of regional cooperation with fellow panellists at Chanakya Chakra’s conference “Towards a Secure and Prosperous Indo-Pacific” in Delhi on December 4. Based in India, Chanakya Chakra is an inter-organisational independent discussion forum on foreign and security policies. Leading think tanks serve as participating institutes, along with membership drawn from the strategic community.

Mapping the Digital Economy in 2020

In their article in Project Syndicate, Michael Spence, Advisory Board Co-Chair of Asia Global Institute, and Chen Long identify essential areas of inquiry for determining how to manage cutting-edge technologies, from mobile Internet to blockchain.

Highlights of 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program

The Asia Global Institute is now inviting applications for its 2020 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary and intensive leadership development initiative designed for mid-career professionals from around the world. Check out the program highlights.

Agricultural Subsidies and Climate Change: A Policy Reflection from Africa

Author: Victor Mponda-Banda, 2019 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOW, ASIA GLOBAL INSTITUTE

Climate change is severely affecting smallholder farmers in Africa, who represent the majority of the agriculture sector across the continent. Victor Mponda-Banda, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, looks at how his native Malawi responded to the challenge and assesses the pros and cons of using subsidies to mitigate the impact of global warming.

Conferencia Magistral “La Cooperación Sur-Sur y la Agenda del Desarrollo en tiempos de crisis globales y regionales”

Author: Cecilia Milesi, 2019 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOW, ASIA GLOBAL INSTITUTE

Cecilia Milesi, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, will join other leaders on South-South Cooperation to speak on a conference on Dec 4, organized for the Diplomatura on South-South Cooperation in the framework of the South-South Iberoamerican Program. The iniative is jointly organized by FLACSO, Catholic University of Cordoba, University of Quilmes and South-South Catedra and University of Buenos Aires.

Rui Wang, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, shared her insights on development at the 2019 China Foundation Forum

Speaker: Rui Wang, 2019 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOW, ASIA GLOBAL INSTITUTE

At the 2019 China Foundation Forum, Rui Wang, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, China Representative of GlobalGiving Foundation and National Consultant of UNDP China, participated in the roundtable discussion to share her insights and experience on how to integrate the mission of philanthropy and the development strategy of the country in question, how to localize international experience and how to establish network of partners.

Health unions seek assurances after leak on trade talks and NHS

Medics have called for guarantees that health will not be put at risk for profit after Labour released official documents that it said proved the NHS would be “on the table” in trade talks with the US. The leaked papers revealed that UK and US officials have repeatedly discussed dismantling protections that keep NHS drug prices down, undermining Boris Johnson’s claim that healthcare is not on the table in trade talks. Layla McCay, 2017 AsiaGlobal Fellow, is quoted that it will be for the government to decide what services to offer in any future trade deal. There might have been talks about NHS involvement in a potential US trade deal in the past but what is important is what the government actually commits to. At the moment it says that the NHS is not on the table.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOWS PROGRAM

The Asia Global Institute is now inviting applications for its 2020 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary and intensive leadership development initiative designed for mid-career professionals from around the world. Check out the program highlights.

Heribert Dieter: Results of Hong Kong district council elections only "symbolic"

Asia Global Institute Director of Research Heribert Dieter tells German national radio Deutchlandfunk that Hong Kong's district council elections were only symbolic, and would not unseat Chief Executive Carrie Lam, despite the pro-government camp's landslide defeat.

Highlights of 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program

The Asia Global Institute is now inviting applications for its 2020 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary and intensive leadership development initiative designed for mid-career professionals from around the world. Check out the program highlights.

延續與深化：解讀中共四中全會

Author: Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor, Asia Global Institute

In his regular column in Taiwanese media The Journalist, Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor of Asia Global Institute, talks about the fourth plenary session conducted by the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and its implications for political situations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

G20: Can China and Japan forge common ground?

Ahead of the annual G20 meeting in Nagoya, Japan, Asia Global Institute Adjunct Associate Professor Yoshikazu Kato gives his take on whether China and Japan can forge common ground.

Brave, Compassionate, Confident, Kind: Succeeding as a Woman in Health and Care

In this report from the Health & Care Women Leaders Network, Layla McCay, 2017 AsiaGlobal Fellow, and more than 20 senior women working in and with the NHS speak candidly about their career journeys and how women they have known, and worked with have supported them and helped them on their leadership journey.

Competitiveness of LGUs

Author: Ira Paulo Pozon, 2018 ASIAGLOBAL FELLOW, ASIA GLOBAL INSTITUTE

In his regular column in The Manila Times, 2018 AsiaGlobal Fellow Ira Paulo Pozon, talks about why local government competitiveness is on the rise and how local goverment units are leading the way for greater governmental reforms.

How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans

Interviewee: Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute

In a New York Times article investigating financing problems in Ruzhou, China, Zhiwu Chen, Director of Asia Global Institute, says of the local government's borrowing problem: "Whether it is a financial lease or trust, they are just all tools for local governments to borrow. Officials stop one today, and they come up with another tool tomorrow.” He believes this is why despite years of talk on curbing local government debts, the problem persists.

Contractors hit as China local government defaults rise

Author: Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute

Commenting on the recent rise in local Chinese government defaults in a Financial Times article, Asia Global Institute Director Zhiwu Chen warns if the situation worsens, “The surge in government defaulters could lead to a social crisis with workers taking to the street and protesting against official agencies."

陳志武：真正的學術研究是基於數據來說話的，而不是瞎扯

Author: Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute

In an interview with the Chinese Academy of Financial Inclusion, Professor Zhiwu Chen, Director of Asia Global Institute, who is an advocate for financial literacy, discusses his recent quantitative history research and shares his views on the practice of financial inclusion in China.

CGTN: Insights on the second annual China International Import Expo

Author: Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor, Asia Global Institute

The second annual China International Import Expo (CIIE) kicked off on November 5 at Shanghai's National Exhibition and Convention Center. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech in which he emphasized dismantling trade barriers and shore up global value and supply chains. Innovation is expected to figure in this year's CIIE, and how can it drive trade growth? Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor of Asia Global Institute, was joined by fellow panellists at CGTN in the discussion.

Opinion: Brexit and its impact on healthcare - What is happening now?

Layla McCay, 2017 AsiaGlobal Fellow, warns that Brexit “should not hinder” the collaboration between the UK and other European countries in the field of health research.

Maintaining company’s core value – what entrepreneurs should know

Author: Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute

On October 17, 2019, Zhiwu Chen, Director of Asia Global Institute, gave a keynote speech at the Sequoia CEO Summit 2019, which gathered more than 300 C-suite leaders and economists in Shenzhen. Zhiwu Chen said that entrepreneurs needed to generate alpha factors for their companies as one of the ways to mitigate uncertainty. Neil Shen, member of Asia Global Institute’s Advisory Board and Founding and Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China and Co-Founder of Ctrip.com and Home Inns, also shared his views on key entrepreneurial qualities in his opening remarks.

Hong Kong must protest loudly against the US Human Rights and Democracy Act or live with being ‘just another Chinese city’

Author: Alejandro T. Reyes, Director of Knowledge Dissemination, Asia Global Institute

Alejandro T. Reyes, Director of Knowledge Dissemination of Asia Global Institute, says that if the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act becomes US law, it could do a lot of harm and very little good.

香港問題不小，但不該動搖“一國兩制”

Author: Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute

In an exclusive video interview with Shenzhen Satellite TV, Zhiwu Chen, Director of the Asia Global Institute, discusses the enduring importance of Hong Kong as an international center of finance and trade to China’s economy and society.

リバランス　エズラ・F・ヴォーゲル著 聞き手:加藤嘉一 米中日の今後 老大家が語る

Author: Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor, Asia Global Institute

“Rebalance: Japan, China and the United States in the New Era”, co-authored by Ezra Vogel, Harvard University Professor Emeritus and Yoshikazu Kato of the Asia Global Institute, has received yet another positive review, this time by Nikkei.