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Has China Peaked? Probing the Implications of China’s Economic, Technological and Ecological Challenges to Midcentury
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Mon, Feb 27, 2023
4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)
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Amidst a problematic response to COVID-19 and anemic growth, some commentators have begun speculating that China may have reached the peak of its economic and geopolitical influence. But is this true? And if so, what does it mean for the rest of the world and for China’s role in addressing shared challenges like climate change?
This talk draws on Scott Moore's recently-published book, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future to argue that China does face profound economic and political challenges — but even more severe technological and ecological ones. This talk probes the implications of this reality, and how China and the rest of the world can make progress in providing global public goods against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions.
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Scott Moore is a political scientist, university administrator, and former policymaker whose career focuses on China, sustainability, and emerging technology. As Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, Scott Moore works with faculty members from across the University to design, implement, and highlight innovative, high-impact global research initiatives in areas including sustainability and emerging technology.
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Louis A. Simpson International Building, 144
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
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Scott Moore
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University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Moore directs Penn Global’s four research and engagement fund programs, including those designed to support faculty-led projects in China, India, and Africa as well as its At-Risk Scholars Program. In addition, Dr. Moore conducts research as an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and The Water Center at Penn, and teaches in the Department of Political Science. His first book, Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines how climate change and other pressures affect the likelihood of conflict over water within countries. His latest, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press, 2022), explores how shared ecological and technological challenges force us to re-envision China’s rise and its role in the world.
Prior to Penn, Dr. Moore was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group, and Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on climate change. Before entering public service, Dr. Moore was Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He was also awarded the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program fellowship, the Fulbright fellowship, and the Truman Scholarship.
His research and commentary on a wide range of environmental and international affairs issues has appeared in a range of leading scholarly journals and media outlets, including Nature, The China Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Times. Dr. Moore holds doctoral and master’s degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies