Series: Asia in Review (AiR) Webinar Series
Title: Understanding China’s Path Forward: Insights from the 20th CCP Central Committee’s Third Plenum
Date: July 26, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm ICT (GMT+7)
Format: Online panel discussion via Zoom video teleconferencing
Short description: From July 15-18, the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will hold its Third Plenum in Beijing to set policies for the coming years. This gathering of nearly 400 members and non-voting alternate members is highly anticipated, as it is expected to address significant economic challenges, including slowing growth, a struggling real estate market, an aging population, rising debt, and increasing trade tensions.

The Third Plenum, traditionally a critical meeting in the CCP’s five-year political cycle often serves as a platform for significant policy decisions and strategic direction-setting. This year’s session is particularly crucial as it comes amid global economic uncertainties and internal pressures, with the Chinese government seeking to stabilize the economy and maintain social harmony.

The webinar will provide an in-depth analysis of the plenum’s outcomes, focusing on the proposed economic policies and reforms. It will also explore the broader implications for Chinese foreign policy
and global relations.

Speakers:
Alicia García Herrero is the Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis CIB. She serves as an independent Board Member of AGEAS Insurance Group, a Senior Fellow at the European think tank Bruegel, and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Additionally, she is an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She advises the Spanish government on economic affairs. Alicia is also a Board Member of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), an Advisory Board Member of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), an advisor to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s research arm (HKIMR), and a Council Member of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUF). She is active in international media, including BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, and CNN, as well as on social media platforms LinkedIn and Twitter. In recognition of her thought leadership, she was included in LinkedIn’s TOP Voices
in Economy and Finance in 2017 and named the #6 Top Social Media Leader by Refinitiv in 2020.

Dr. Adam Y. Liu is a political scientist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, specializing in authoritarian politics, Chinese politics and foreign policy, political culture, and political economy. He earned his MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Stanford University. His dissertation, “Building Markets within Authoritarian Institutions: The Political Economy of Banking Development in China,” won the 2020 BRICS Economic Research Award.

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