The Center for Strategic & International Studies Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics will host this online event, featuring Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of government at Cornell University, who will discuss his new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. Wallace will talk about the role of quantification in Chinese political authority.

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Wallace will first share the findings of the book, which will be followed by a discussion about the trajectory of Chinese leadership and the implications for the global economy and the U.S.-China Relationship with three panelists Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan), Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Andrew Mertha (Johns Hopkins University SAIS). Trustee Chair Director Scott Kennedy will host and moderate the discussion, first with the author and panelists, and then with the audience.