Huang Ping, Ph.D. in Sociology(LSE, London, 1991), Senior Research Professor(1997-), and since 2006, the Director General, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS),and Director, Centre for World Politics, CASS.
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Huang Ping: A nation’s GDP is not equivalent to its comprehensive strength
“The ‘national comprehensive strength,’ a concept mentioned by Deng Xiaoping, is not equivalent to GDP. I am trying to link education, science and technology, economy and military together and see them in a relation of four-in-one interactions (when we measure the powers of nations),” said Huang Ping, the director of the Institute of American Studies (an institute of CASS) on the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) Beijing Forum, which was held on Sept. 2, 2012. WRSA is an association of Chinese scholars having the experience of studying in Europe and US. The full text of his speech is as follows:
November 6, 2012
How will the ‘OWS’ movement change?
So for the US it’s a quite extraordinary thing. Of course there are many causes and roots, social, economic and financial, especially the current high unemployment rate, the quite unusual polarization of political parties, the ongoing financial crisis, and therefore people have feel badly about the current status quo. But also there are some special features, for instance we didn’t see any kind of organization behind the movement, we also didn’t see a sort of political agenda for the campaign, and of course it is still going on, we don’t know how long this will last, and some say that because of Christmas, because of winter or because of the coming elections, it may quite soon disappear.
September 11, 2012
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