Introduction to the speaker:
Robert S. Ross is currently a professor in
the Department of Political Science at Boston College and a research fellow at
Fairbank Center for Chinse Studies, Harvard University. He is also a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee for U.S.-China
Relations. He now serves concurrently as a senior advisor to the Security
Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institute
of American Studies in Shanghai. He is also a member of the editorial boards of
Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and other prestigious
journals. His main research areas include U.S.-China relations, East Asian
security, and Chinese security and defense policy.
Introduction to the speaker:
Gunter Schubert is from the University of
Tübingen, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Greater China Studies. He has
over 30 years of field research experience in China, including the mainland and
Taiwan and Hong Kong. His research focuses on local governance and policy
implementation, state and corporate relations. In recent years, Gunter Schubert
is also paying attention to the areas of Chinese foreign policy thinking and
peripheral politics. He is also a research professor at the Graduate School of
East Asian Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.