CAS Speaker Series
Monday, October 5, 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Eaton Humanities 250, CU-Boulder
The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to be a local host for the 2015 CHINA Town Hall. CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving about 70 cities throughout the United States.
5:00 The 2015 program will feature a live webcast panel discussion with Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton; Sheldon Day, Mayor, Thomasville, Alabama; Daniel Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group; and Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The panel will discuss Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States.
6:00 This will be followed by our on-site speaker, William Hurst, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He will speak on “Consultative Authoritarianism versus Political Decay: Politics at the Grassroots in China Today.”