News
By Beata Bai, Nov 4th, 2015.
On Nov 4th, 2015, Political Science Professor He Li, the US Fulbright Scholar, from Merrimack College was invited to deliver a lecture for the Overseas Law School Forum. The topic is American View on Rising China in Latin America. The lecture lasted for about one and a half hours.
At the beginning, Prof. Li put forward that the discussion of China’s growing prominence in LAC are gaining increasing attention from policy-makers and scholars. The US Policy toward LAC has also changed a lot. The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.
Then, Prof. Li indicated that China and the US operated, essentially, in different arenas. So far, China and the US do not compete directly, but the situation might change with the “declining” America and ascendant China. To be specific, China’s effective involvement focuses on trade, investment, tourism and soft power, while America’s goals in LAC do not change, which are still democracy and human rights.
After that, Prof. Li introduced divergent views on Rise of China in LAC. Countries such as Russia, Iran and India believed that China is on the top of the watch-list of other actors beyond the hemisphere. Hawks or Dragon slayers hold the idea of China threat, while panda huggers deny the existence of a threat of China. At the same time, Prof. Li cited the New Two camps theory from Chair Xi’s public statements. The theory reveals Xi’s opinion that the world is divided into two opposing historical camps—socialist and capitalist, instead of the old cold war view of the world. Xi and the other top leaders believe that these two camps have no rational choice but to coexist. Prof. Li then summarized the implications for Latin America and the US.
In the final half hour of the lecture, Prof. Li discussed a lot of practical issues with the students, concentrating on the content and difference of the commercial contracts between China and LAC, Gini coefficient, and some tax issues in the US. Prof. Li also invited students to take part in his other lecture on welfare policy in America. The whole lecture ended in the warm applause of the students.
Published：2015-11-06 Hit：
514
© 2012 School of Law, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
沪公网安备31011002001712号