Tuesday, July 22, 2008

William Overholt joins China Speakers Bureau

William H. Overholt

William H. Overholt, one of the leading academics on China, Asia and international relations and finance, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Overholt recently joined the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a senior research fellow. Before that he was the Asia expert on the Rand Corporation.
Overholt published last year his book Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics, a leading document in this US election year on the country's international relations.
Dr. Overholt is the writer of the bestseller The Rise of China, one of the most compelling books on China's economic transformation in the 1990s. From unique perspectives he analyzed the emergence of a superpower and has remained an outspoken voice in looking at China's development.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WILLIAM OVERHOLT = COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZER

Why do people keep glamorizing Communist China?
This is a country that has no free elected government and punishes free speech.
The bloggers and China Sycophants only encourage Communist China's propaganda machine.
It is senseless and naive to promote Communist China in a positive light.
Communist China is a nuclear enemy of the free democratic world. It is wrong to interact with the Chinese.
The act of visiting Communist China or going there to do business or even attending the Olympics is tantamount to treason.
My comments are not against the Chinese people; all countries are generally made up of good-natured, peace-loving people. I personally am an enthusiast of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The Communist Chinese want us to believe that they are socially, economically and commercially an "equal member" of the global community. They are in no way similar to free industrialized states.
Communist countries cannot be on the same stance economically and politically as free and independent states. This is a huge mistake in our thinking... to accept China on the terms which China wants us to accept them.
Communist China does not get to set its own world opinion.
This summer's Olympics is a huge propaganda opportunity for the Communist Regime. They can now tout that a Communist Autocracy can operate in commercial and global spheres such as international sports and business all while suppressing free-speech, religious freedoms and other civil liberties.
Just because we lent a sympathetic pause to our criticism of Communist China after the Sichuan Earthquake we should not forget about the treatment of the Falun Gong, the plight of the Tibetan state and countless other acts of oppression.
Even Islam suffers in Communist China.
Communist China is an "Equal Opportunity Destroyer"

China Herald said...

Hey, I'm not going to kill a decent discussion :-)