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Date: Monday, January 31, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to China on the Eve of the Winter Olympics: Hard Choices for the World’s Democracies on Monday, January 31, 2022 from 10:00 am - 11:30 am PT. As China prepares to host the Winter Olympics, its economy is slowing, its real estate sector is in crisis, and its push for regional dominance is alarming its neighbors. At the 20th Party Congress this October, Xi Jinping is expected to win a third term as China’s ruler. What do these developments portend for China and the world, and how should the United States respond? SPEAKERS George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management and the founder and chair of the Open Society Foundations. He began his philanthropic work in 1979 with scholarships for Black African university students in South Africa and for East European dissidents to study in the West. He has given away more than $32bn to advance rights and justice across the world. Matt Pottin...

Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution hosts Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks in Research Collaboration with China on Wednesday, December 15 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation (CASIA) is a global hub for research into artificial intelligence. It collaborates extensively with leading US universities and technology firms. But CASIA also develops public security and defense applications for the PRC state that facilitate mass surveillance and human rights abuses, particularly in Xinjiang. How can our research enterprise navigate a world full of such potential partners in authoritarian nations without compromising its democratic values, research ethics and integrity? ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Jeffrey Stoff is the founder of Redcliff Enterprises, a start-up that seeks to build public-private partnerships to protect research and intellectual capital. Stoff spent eighteen years in the US government as a senior analyst fo...

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution hosts Mafia-Like Business Systems in China: Xi’s Crackdown in Context on Tuesday, December 7 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Meg Rithmire is a F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines the role of land politics, real estate, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. A new project examines state-business relations in authoritarian Asia, and related work concerns the role of the Chinese Communist Party in China’s political economy, and trade and investment conflict between China and the Unit...

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar. Register at: https://bit.ly/3AUnPi3 This is a virtual event. Please click here to register and generate a link to the talk.  The link will be unique to you; please save it and do not share with others. November 10, 5:00-6:15 p.m. California time / November 11, 9:00-10:15 a.m. China time Based on his recent Oxford University Press book Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy, Dr. Andrea Ghiselli will discuss the role of the actors that contributed to the emergence and evolution of China's approach to the protection of its interests overseas. He will show how the securitization of non-traditional security threats overseas played a key role in shaping the behavior and preferences of Chinese policymakers and military elites, especially with regard to the role of the armed forces in foreign policy.  While Chinese policymakers were able to overcome important organizational challenges, the future of China's appr...

Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 5:30 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: https://bit.ly/2YXJwkl This paper investigates the impact of China’s reform of the system for medical payments from traditional fee-for-service to prospective payment in the form of diagnosis-related group. The paper explores comprehensive aspects of the reform, taking advantage of a large-scale administrative data set from a pilot city in China. It finds that medical expenditure per admission dropped by 7.3 percent, with greater impact on patients who spent a larger amount. To better understand the changes, further decompositions find that the expenditure reduction is fully explained by reduction in the quantity of services instead of using cheaper ones, and by reduction in the use of drugs but not reduction in other types of services, including examination, treatment, and nursing care. In addition, no evidence is found on quality deterioration or behavioral responses, including upcoding and cream skimming. Hospitals maintained t...