Joan Kaufman

on August 3, 2017

Joan Kaufman is the Director for Academic Programs at Schwarzman Scholars, a newly launched elite international Master’s program in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in China inspired by the Rhodes Scholars program at Oxford University in the U.K. Kaufman has been a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 2003, and is an Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy at Tsinghua University’s Research Center for Public Health.

An expert on both China and global health policy, Kaufman was the Director of Columbia University’s Global Center for East Asia (Beijing) from 2012-2016 and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She taught and was based at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government from 2002-2010, where she founded and directed the AIDS Public Policy Project and was a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations. From 2003-2012, she was a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Lecturer and the Associate Director of the Master Program in Health Policy and Management at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Kaufman was a Radcliffe fellow in residence at Harvard from 2001-2002 and named as a Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow in 2005. She has lived and worked in China for 15 years since 1980 as the first international program officer for the United Nations Population Fund, as Program Officer for Reproductive Health for the Ford Foundation, as the China Team Leader for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and most recently for Columbia University.

She has a Doctoral degree in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health, an M.A. and M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. cum laude in Chinese Studies from Trinity College. She has consulted for many foundations and international organizations and publishes frequently on global health policy, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, reproductive health, population, emerging infectious diseases, and civil society with a focus on China.

Anubhav Gupta

on August 3, 2017

Anubhav Gupta is an Assistant Director with the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) in New York. He supports ASPI’s initiative India and APEC: Charting a Path to Membership, and he co-authored the ASPI report “India’s Future in Asia: The APEC Opportunity,” which was published in March 2016. Gupta also coordinates ASPI’s public events in New York and contributes to ASPI’s policy dialogues and other projects related to India and South Asia.

Previously, Gupta worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco, where he focused on climate change and energy issues in India, as well as U.S. domestic water policy. He also spent time as a litigation legal assistant at Skadden Arps LLP in Boston and as a foreign affairs intern in the Department of State’s Office of India Affairs.

Gupta was born in India but has lived in the U.S. since the age of 11. He received his Master’s degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Inspirational Vandalism, Theme Parks, and the Man Who Swam to Hong Kong

A Monthly Roundup of China’s Best Photojournalism

By Ye Ming, Yan Cong & more on August 3, 2017

This month, five photo galleries explore different aspects of public and private space in contemporary China. Wu Yue meets a couple who swam to Hong Kong from Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution and still find solace in the waters of Hong Kong’s habor; Chin-Chen followed several job seekers in a Shenzhen talent market; Yang Yifan captures the talismans made by students preparing for China’s college entrance exam; Li Jing and Huangfu Tianxing go inside decrepit Beijing apartments built in the 1950s; and Chen Ronghui makes shimmering, surrealist landscapes of the country’s theme parks.

A grand bargain with China could remove North’s nuclear threat — but it would destroy America’s global influence

By Michael Auslin on August 3, 2017

With North Korea’s latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, one apparently capable of reaching California, the American foreign policy community is struggling to find a way — short of war — to end the threat from Pyongyang. In the media and behind closed doors, some are suggesting that the U.S. should approach China for a grand bargain.

Politics
International Relations, U.S.-China Relations, Nuclear Power, China-North Korea Relations, Global Politics

Holes close in China’s ’Great Firewall’ as Apple and Amazon snub apps to bypass censors

on August 3, 2017

Moves by business giants Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to stop people from using censorship-skirting apps in China have renewed questions about the extent to which U.S. companies are willing to work with authorities to operate in the vast but tightly controlled Chinese market.

Media, Politics, Technology
The Great Firewall, Technology, Censorship, Amazon, E-Commerce

Peter Knaack

on August 3, 2017

Peter Knaack is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Economic Governance at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He holds graduate degrees in Economics and International Relations from the University of Southern California. Knaack learned financial Chinese at the Inter-University Program at Tsinghua University, and he has worked as a visiting researcher at Peking University’s School of International Studies and the Center for New Structural Economics. His research focuses on cross-border financial regulatory coordination at the G20 and the FSB, China’s emerging role in global financial governance, and the regulatory politics of shadow banking and digital financial services.