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Amid rising geopolitical tensions and growing challenges to the liberal, rules-based international order, are new opportunities opening for China to fill gaps, reshape institutions, and redefine forms of global cooperation? Although China’s influence is felt worldwide and prominent in daily news coverage, its global engagement is less often examined on the ground - where it is practiced, negotiated, contested, and continually reshaped.

Three renowned scholars share and discuss fresh empirical insights that move beyond the usual headlines and familiar thematic frames. Drawing on expertise in and from different world regions, the panel will explore a range of dynamics in China’s global engagement, including China’s diverse relationships with the Global South and development cooperation; the everyday activities of Chinese companies along the Belt and Road; China’s role in climate governance and resource commodification; and the country’s increasingly outward-oriented activities in scientific research and technology development.

The discussion is open to anyone interested in China and will be held in English.

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Speakers:

• Wendy Leutert, Associate Professor and GLP-Ming Z. Mei Chair of Chinese Economics and Trade, Indiana University, USA
• Iselin Stensdal, Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute/ Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics
• Laura Trajber Waisbich, Deputy Director of Research, Igarapé Institute, Brazil

Moderator: Anna L. Ahlers, Professor II in Chinese Studies, UiO

Program:

• 08.30: Breakfast reception
• 09.00: Panel discussion begins
• 10.30: End of panel and mingling

This public panel takes place in connection with the Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics and is organized by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS) at the University of Oslo.

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Main speakers

Wendy Leutert

Associate Professor and GLP-Ming Z. Mei Chair of Chinese Economics and Trade, Indiana University, USA

Iselin Stensdal

Senior Researcher, FNI

Laura Trajber Waisbich

Deputy Director of Research at the Igarapé Institute

Moderator

Anna Lisa Ahlers

Professor II, UiO