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How the West Got China Wrong: Three Points in Modern History

---Talk and Q&A with longtime foreign correspondent Melinda Liu


The U.S. China relationship has cycled through waves of enchantment and disenchantment, and we're again entering an era where the discourse is increasingly ridden with anxiety and conjecture. Join the Shanghai FCC as veteran foreign correspondent Melinda Liu highlights three points in time where the U.S. "got" China wrong, beginning with the hopes the Americans pinned on the ascent of Deng Xiaoping.


Today, China is showing a more confident face to the world via initiatives such as Belt and Road, military parades and efforts to exert political pressure at home and abroad. Does Beijing care how the world perceives of its foreign ambitions? How does the Chinese leadership balance that with domestic priorities?


In these questions are the crux of a Western misunderstanding of Chinese priorities. Q&A to follow. Blackbird's chef will prepare a special menu.


About the speaker:

MELINDA LIU has been Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek since 1998 — her second time in the posting— and is one of Newsweek's most experienced foreign correspondents. Liu has covered firsthand China's post-Mao modernization, the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan and later ouster of the Taliban, the liberation of Kuwait, the fall of Saddam Hussein, and U.S. military interventions in Somalia and Haiti. She's a recipient of the Shorenstein journalism award for her reporting on Asia. She is researching American aviators in WWII China, and in 2017 co-directed with Tian Ji a short documentary film on the Doolittle Raiders and their mission to bomb Japan in April 1942. Liu has also been China Economic Correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Taipei contributor to the Washington Post and CBS News. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Liu graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. From 2005-2008 she was President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC).


Venue:

Blackbird

1262 Yan'an Xi Lu, Bldg 8, near Anxi Lu

延安西路1262号8号楼, 近安西路

Phone: 1870 199 0479


Friday, Mar. 22, 2019

Time: 12 p.m.-2 p.m. (Doors open 12 p.m., event starts at 12:30 p.m.)


Admission: 125 rmb members / 225 rmb non-members

Price includes lunch at Blackbird.


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Speakers

  • Melinda Liu

    Melinda Liu

    Melinda Liu has been the Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek since 1998, and is one of Newsweek's most experienced foreign correspondents. She has covered firsthand China’s post-Mao modernization, the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan and later ouster of the Taliban, the liberation of Kuwait, the fall of Saddam Hussein, and U.S. military interventions in Somalia and Haiti. In 2006, she won the Shorenstein journalism award in recognition of her reporting on Asia. Melinda is researching American aviators in WWII China, and in 2017 co-directed with Tian Ji (see below) a short documentary film on the Doolittle Raiders and their mission to bomb Japan in April 1942.

    In March 1980, Melinda became Newsweek’s first Beijing Bureau Chief, living and working in the Chinese capital until 1982. She returned to Beijing in 1998 as Bureau Chief. From the mid-80’s to late 90’s, she was based in Hong Kong and Washington D.C., often travelling to cover global conflicts as a war correspondent. To report on the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Melinda was one of few American journalists in Baghdad during the 2003 U.S.-led “shock and awe” bombing of the Iraqi capital. Her report “Eyewitness Baghdad” featured in Newsweek’s special war issue which won a National Magazine Award that year.

    In addition to overseas assignments, Melinda was Newsweek’s diplomatic correspondent based in Washington D.C. from 1992-1998. Prior to joining Newsweek in 1979, she was the China Economic Correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Taipei contributor to the Washington Post and CBS News. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Melinda graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. From 2005-2008 she was President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC).

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Venue

Blackbird

1262 Yan'an Xi Lu, Bldg 8, near Anxi Lu 延安西路1262号8号楼, 近安西路
Shanghai, China

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