Capital Beat: The 18th Party Congress Go back »
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Time2012-11-16 | 15:00 - 17:00
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Venue:Westin Beijing Chaoyang
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Address:7 North Dongsanhuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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Fee:Members: 400 RMB |
Non Members: 600 RMB
Capital Beat: The 18th Party Congress
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is pleased to invite you to the second edition of our quarterly public affairs seminar Capital Beat on 16th November at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang Hotel, with leading China experts Jonathan Fenby, John Garnaut, Dr. David Ellis and James Miles (moderator).
The Communist Party’s 18th National Congress has now started and marks China’s biggest political event in ten years. Due to term and age limits restrictions, seven of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee will likely be retiring, and a new setup of Party leaders will be appointed. Retiring leaders include current President Hu Jintao, who will step down as the party's General Secretary, and Premier Wen Jiabao. The Congress will elect the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and will likely elect currently touted successors into power.
On Thursday the 15th November, the new lineup of the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s highest decision-making body, will be made public. The composition and size of the Standing Committee will provide a crucial insight into China’s policy direction for the next 5-10 years, and will have far-reaching implications for foreign business in China.
We therefore invite you to join Jonathan Fenby, John Garnaut, Dr. David Ellis and James Miles to analyze and discuss this once in a decade government transition and its implications for foreign business and foreign policy.
Agenda:
15:00 - 15:30 Registration
15:30 - 15:32 Welcome Speech:
Mr. Dirk Moens, European Chamber Secretary General
15:32 - 15:35 Opening Remarks by moderator:
Mr. James Miles, China Correspondent, The Economist
15:40 - 16:15 Presentations by Speakers
Mr. Jonathan Fenby
Founding partner and Managing Director of the China team at Trusted Sources. Author, journalist, and former Editor of the South China Morning Post
Mr. John Garnaut
China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Dr. David Ellis
Political Counselor, Embassy of the United Kingdom to China
16:15 - 17:00 Moderated Q&A
17:00 Networking and Drinks
Speakers
Mr. Jonathan Fenby
Jonathan is a co-founder of Trusted Sources. He is a leading analyst on China with a strong following in the investment community. His specialist area is policy interpretation, politics and the broader political economy. He heads the five person China country team at Trusted Sources with offices in Beijing and London. Jonathan has a wealth of experience as a writer and commentator on Chinese political, economic and social affairs. He was formerly editor of The South China Morning Post, The Observer and Reuters World Service as well as a senior correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of six books on China, most recently Tiger Head, Snake Tails for Simon and Schuster. His History of Modern China for Penguin Press and Harper Collins was chosen as one of the books of the year for 2008 by The Economist and Financial Times. He broadcasts frequently on CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg, among other broadcast media, and lectures on contemporary China in the UK, US, Europe and East Asia.
Mr. John Garnaut
John Garnaut is China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, in the Fairfax Media stable, and also writes for Foreign Policy magazine.
John graduated in law and arts from Monash University and worked for three years as a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Hall & Wilcox before joining the Herald as a cadet in 2002.
In 2002 John was appointed the Herald's Economics Correspondent in the Canberra press gallery and in 2007 was posted to Beijing as the Asia Economics Correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
He joined Fairfax in 2002 as an economics journalist after working as a commercial lawyer. His work on China has been recognised with several awards, including the 2009 Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year, for reporting the detention of Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu.
John lived in Beijing for two years in the 1980s, while his father was posted as the Australian ambassador, and returned there with his wife and children in 2007.
Dr. David Ellis
Dr David Ellis has been Political Counsellor (Internal and Values) at the British Embassy, Beijing since late 2011. He and his team work on domestic Chinese politics, civil society and human rights. David specialises in leadership politics, Party issues and ideology. He joined the Foreign And Commonwealth Office in 1996 as a China analyst and served previously at the British Embassy in Beijing from 1999-2002. David has a long relationship with China, first visiting in the mid-1980s as a student in Xi’an. He has an MA (Hons) in Chinese and PhD in Late Ming Dynasty literature from the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. James Miles
James Miles has been China Correspondent for The Economist, based in Beijing, since 2001. Before that, he held many positions with the BBC, including Beijing Bureau Chief for BBC News and Current Affairs, 1988 to 1994, Hong Kong Correspondent, BBC World Service, 1995 to 1997 and Senior Chinese Affairs Analyst, BBC News London, 1997 to 2000. James has been interviewed on CNN, Channel 4 evening news, BBC One Ten O'Clock News, BBC Radio 4 'Today', BBC Radio 5 Live evening news and ITV evening news, amongst others. He has written several special reports for The Economist on China and Taiwan.