The Global Dialogue series, presented by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), is honored and pleased to feature a fireside chat with Dr. David M. Lampton, a leading China expert and Senior Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Foreign Policy Institute. This program was hosted by CCG president Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang.

Infrastructure, development, and geopolitics often intersect in international relations. In Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press 2020), the vision and implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Southeast Asia are closely examined by David M. Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik. As the historic Laos-China Railway has been set to open next month, what progress can we expect from this infrastru ...