Luncheon Talk byProf. Zhang Wei WeiUS–China Trade Tensions and the Remaking of a New World Order
Prof. Zhang Weiwei is a distinguished professor of international relations and Director of the China Institute at Fudan University, a board member of China’s National Think Tanks Council and a senior fellow at the Chunqiu Institute.
He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Geneva University.
A former visiting fellow at Oxford, he was professor of international relations at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations and senior research fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Geneva University.
He had worked as a senior English interpreter for Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders in the mid-1980s. He has travelled to over 100 countries.
He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning “China Trilogy” (published by the Shanghai People’s Press) of Zhongguo Chudong (the China Ripple), Zhongguo Zhenhan (the China Wave) and Zhongguo Chaoyue (the China Horizon, and the English editions of the latter two were published by World Century, New Jersey, in 2012 and 2016 respectively). He predicted in 2011 that the Arab Spring would soon become the Arab winter in a much publicized debate with Francis Fukuyama, the author of the End of History and the Last man.
His other works include Ideology and Economic Reform under Deng Xiaoping (Kegan Paul, London, 1996), Transforming China: Economic Reform and its Political Implications (Macmillan, London and St. Martins, New York, 2000) and Reshaping Cross-Strait Relations: Ideas and Reflections (CAS, Geneva, 2006).
He has written extensively in Chinese and English on China’s political and economic reforms, the China model of development, China’s foreign policy and comparative political governance.
