Prof. Baizhi Liao: Chinese Scholar's Perspective on Africa & Middle East
Assistant Director of the Institute for West Asian and African Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) in Beijing, China, Prof. Liao is fluent in Arabic has worked in Africa and the Middle East. He is currently a visiting scholar at Emory University's Institute for Developing Nations conducting research on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 15
Chinese Scholar's Perspective on Africa & Middle East Prof. Baizhi Liao, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) CICIR is one of the most important think tanks to the Chinese government. Its research work includes global strategic, political, economic and security studies; country and regional studies; and China’s foreign relations. As part of Prof. Liao's focus on the Middle East and North Africa, he has visited Tunisia, Sudan, Algeria, and Egypt, experiencing much of the Arab Spring. Some of his responsibilities have include creating reports that have influenced Chinese policy related to Darfur, as well as the future bilateral relationship between Sudan and South Sudan; reporting on the 18-day revolution while working in Egypt to China's government; and reporting on the Libyan revolution during the evacuation of Chinese workers. In his reports on the Arab Spring Prof. Liao has considered such questions as: “What are the reasons and characteristics of the revolution? What will be going on in the future? What’s the impact on China’s interests? What should we do towards that?”
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_Location: First Presbyterian Church, Fifield Hall -- 1328 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 (map)
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