How is China acquiring global influence? In this talk, Richard Carney will show how autocracies with heavy control over the corporate sector and clientelist systems are most attracted to Chinese infrastructure spending and then in turn import more technology from China and become enmeshed in China’s own technical standards regime. Carney will explore how the spread of infrastructure, technology and political influence are interconnected and all contribute to China’s growing influence on the global stage. 

Speaker:

• Richard Carney, Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Moderator:

• Barry Naughton, Professor, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (TBC)

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This hybrid lecture 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: 

Richard Carney engages in political economy research with a focus on business-government relations. He is the author of “Authoritarian Capitalism,” which won the 2019 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize for work on the Asia Pacific. Carney is also an advisor to the World Bank for its flagship project “Businesses of the State.”

Richard is a professor at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai where he teaches executives and MBA students. He received his Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego.