Short Report of Open Seminar (10/21/2016):

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Ryan Manuel, a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University; and Shu Cheng (Will) Zou, currently a Monbukagakusho scholarship research student studying in the Department of Area Studies (China) at the University of Tokyo.

This seminar highlights how the Xi Jinping administration has changed China’s foreign policy rhetoric and focus. The seminar critically examines the idea that Xi’s foreign policy is more “Confucian” than previous administrations, as well as commenting on the geographic direction, ideology, and policy implications of Xi’s foreign policy shift.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on October 21, 2016, hosted by Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Co-Hosts: The China Diplomacy Research Group “Aspects of the Strengthening of China” Research Project, Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Ritsumeikan University; Asia-Japan Research Institute. University’ and the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University.

Approximately 45 participants attended the seminar.