The Global Political Sociology of US-China Rivalry
Wednesday, 18 October 2023 | 11:30 to 13:30 EDT | Room 280N, Second Floor, 91亚色 Lanes, 91亚色
With Ho-fung Hung (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Gregory Chin (Politics, 91亚色)
The recent rivalry between the US and China is more about the shifting balance of economic forces in global capitalism than about ideological differences. Since the 1990s, Wall Street and US TNCs have integrated Chinese firms into their global financial circuits and supply chains. Their lobbying fostered a US-China policy that advanced economic engagement despite the deep, post-1989 ideological rift between the two countries. After about 2010, the China boom faltered. The Chinese state became ever more aggressive in squeezing US and other foreign capital within China鈥檚 sphere of influence to facilitate China鈥檚 capital export. This unleashed an inter-capitalist competition that underlined the intensifying US-China geopolitical rivalry comparable to the UK-Germany rivalry a century earlier.
Ho-fung Hung is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia, 2011), The China Boom (Columbia, 2015), City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule (Cambridge, 2022) and Clash of Empires: From 鈥淐himerica鈥 to the 鈥淣ew Cold War鈥 (Cambridge, 2022). His academic publications have been translated into at least 11 different languages. His analysis of the global and Chinese politics and economy have been cited or featured in major media outlets around the world.
This event is hosted by the Hong Kong Studies Group at the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research and co-sponsored by 91亚色 Department of Politics.
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