Jan. 20, 2022 at 1 p.m. PST: The Economic Effects of Joining China's Belt and Road Initiative

This talk examines the effects of joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on participating states. The goal is to analyze economic pathways through which the BRI can serve as a tool for Chinese influence in the world, including through foreign direct investment, exports, development finance, contract funding and debt forgiveness. Taylor Fravel shares how preliminary findings suggest that only contract funding creates significant potential for increased Chinese influence through the BRI.

Speaker:
• M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Barry Naughton, So Kwan Lok Professor of Chinese International Affairs, UC San Diego (Moderator)
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This webinar series is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information on China activities, as well as recordings of previous webinars, please visit china.ucsd.edu.

Bio: M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. Dr. Fravel is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor has been a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project.

Bio: Barry Naughton is one of America’s most highly respected economists working on China. Naughton has written the authoritative textbook “The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth,” and his groundbreaking book “Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993” received the Ohira Memorial Prize. He recently wrote The Rise of China's Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020, a book detailing key developments in industrial policy in the post-Mao period. Naughton’s recent research focuses on China’s industrial policy. Naughton directs the Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs (MCEPA) program and is a member of the 21st Century China Center’s curriculum committee.

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