Channel Title: Martin Jacques Channel Description: Martin Jacques is an author, broadcaster and speaker, best known for his book 'When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order'. First published in 2009, the book has since become a global bestseller, selling over 350,000 copies in 14 languages, as well as being shortlisted for two major literary awards. A second edition of the book, greatly expanded and fully updated, was published in 2012. His TED talk, 'Understanding the Rise of China', has been viewed nearly 2 million times. Martin Jacques is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC. <video> Why Western Democracy is in Serious Trouble Description: President Biden’s Dialogue on Democracy seeks to set the agenda and put China on the defensive. The problem is that Western democracy is in serious trouble, as the Insurrection at Capitol Hill in January demonstrated. Western democracy faces two deep problems. First, it is in trouble at home and losing support. Second, China has been out-performing the West in governance terms for several decades. </video> <video> Is China the 'most serious challenge' to international order? | Inside Story Description: On May 26th, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduced the Biden administration’s long-awaited strategy to compete with China’s rise as a global power. He suggested that China poses the most serious long-term challenge to the international order. He argued that the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more repressive at home, and more aggressive abroad. Are the criticisms by the US justified? Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoo Guests: Martin Jacques – Author, When China Rules the World; Michael D Swaine – Director, East Asia Programme, Quincy Institute; Henry Huiyao Wang – Founder, Center for China and Globalization </video> <video> The Pandemic: Why Has China Done So Well and the West Done So Badly? Description: The Pandemic has had a greater impact on the world than any event since 1945. It is already three years old and still very far from over. The pandemic raises many questions. How do we evaluate China’s initial response to Covid-19? Why was the West so ill-prepared? Why did China have such low death figures and the US so high? Why were the Western and Chinese approaches to Covid-19 so different? Why has the West chosen to 'live with Covid-19' while China has pursued a zero-tolerance policy? What will we make of the pandemic in the years to come? Here Martin Jacques, a leading global analyst and author of the most influential book on China’s rise, and Professor Ejaz Akram, a Pakistani-American scholar of World Politics and China, and adviser to the former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, discuss these questions and others. </video> <video> What Is Meant by Chinese Modernisation? Description: Perhaps the most important theme to emerge from the CPC 20th Congress was Chinese modernisation. The idea of modernisation has been fundamental to China’s reform and opening up strategy ever since Deng Xiaoping. Chinese modernisation marks a major shift. China is now turning its thoughts from catching up with the West to what kind of modernisation does China need. It is a much broader idea at the heart of which is what China calls common prosperity: that China is too unequal and there needs to be a much greater emphasis on fairness and equity. </video> <video> Chinese Civilization and the Chinese Communist Party Description: China is first and foremost a civilization-state. In contrast Western societies are nation-states. It is impossible to understand China through a Western prism. The consequences of China’s civilizational roots are far-reaching in every aspect of society, not least in governance. A Western-style political party would find governing China impossible. The skill-set is quite different. The success of the CPC has been its ability to express, reflect, and articulate Chinese civilization. </video> <video> The Significance of the CPC’s 20th Congress at a time of Global Instability and Multiple Crises Description: In this far-ranging interview for CGTN’s Dialogue, Martin Jacques discusses the CPC 20th Congress, the tech war, Europe and the energy crisis, the global economic outlook, and Britain’s biggest political and economic crisis since 1945. </video> <video> One Country Two Systems: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects Description: This is a speech given at an International Forum in Hong Kong, 16 June 2022. Hong Kong is moving into a new phase of development. It has three key features: order and stability, integration with the Chinese economy, and crucially, winning the hearts and minds of the Hong Kong people </video> <video> China's growing diplomatic role in Ukraine crisis and brokering the Iran--Saudia Arabia deal. Description: China has been making serious progress in its diplomatic influence since the beginning of the year. The most dramatic example is its pivotal role in the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia which took the whole world by surprise. It was an extraordinary demonstration of China’s power and diplomatic potential in seemingly almost any area of the world. Increasing attention is now being paid to how China might play a central role in bringing the Ukraine war to an end. </video> <video> Will The Next China Still Be China? Description: China has changed massively since 1978. And yet it remains recognisably China. In 20 years’ time it will again be profoundly different from what it is now. Yet it will still be recognisably China. In this talk in Guangzhou, Martin Jacques asks what is the secret to China’s extraordinary continuity. </video> <video> What is Chinese modernisation? Description: </video> <video> Opening Keynote Martin Jacques at The 25th Anniversary The Future Of Hong Kong Virtual Conference Description: Hong Kong ended up in a terrible mess in 2019, angry and divided. What went wrong? Whose fault was it? Like all complex problems it had multiple causes. The Western attitude was to try and ignore Chinese sovereignty and emphasise two systems. The Hong Kong population looked down on the Chinese and most of the region, regarding themselves to be rather superior. The Chinese underestimated the seriousness of the problems they had inherited in 1997 following 156 years of British colonialism. Eventually Hong Kong broke down. Now it is seeking to make a new start. It has a great opportunity. Hong Kong must fashion a much closer relationship with China. It must engage in a huge land reform programme to break the power of the tycoons. Huge inequality must be addressed. In ten years’ time, certainly twenty years’ time, Hong Kong can be very different, a place for the future. This is the opening keynote speech to a conference on the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong organised by the Global Institute for Tomorrow on August 25th, 2022. </video> <video> The Ukrainian crisis Description: Martin Jacques on the Ukrainian crisis </video> <video> The West’s Cold War Narrative on China Description: In this interview for the influential independent Chinese website Guancha.com, Martin Jacques dissects the now dominant Western narrative about China. Between around 2000 and 2016, that narrative combined scepticism and hostility with curiosity and openness. The latter have now largely disappeared to be replaced by a Cold War narrative which reduces China to the Chinese Communist Party and more than 2000 years of extraordinary history to the period since 1949. It might be an effective tool of excommunication in the short run but it explains precious little about China. In the long run the West needs to make sense of China not dismiss it. The interview is in English with Chinese sub-titles. </video> <video> BRICS Summit In conversation with Martin Jacques Description: The Belt and Road Summit in Johannesburg in August was a hugely important event. The previous five members has become eleven members representing 37% of global GDP. The Global South has acquired a powerful new voice on the global stage. In this interview for South African TV, Martin Jacques assesses the significance of the expansion of BRICS. </video> <video> Understanding China on the Global Political Stage Description: The West faces a huge intellectual challenge. It will never make sense of China until it understands China in Chinese rather than Western terms. Where are we now? Ever since 2017 the West has been going backwards. This is the Great Regression. The longer the West refuses to understand China, the less it will be able to understand the world. The challenge is stark: learn to understand China or become increasingly marginalised. This talk was given at King Henry Vlll School, my old school, in Coventry. I left in 1964 and this was the first time I had returned since then. Cameraman and editor, Dan Balcam. </video>

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Martin Jacques is an author, broadcaster and speaker, best known for his book 'When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order'. First published in 2009, the book has since become a global bestseller, selling over 350,000 copies in 14 languages, as well as being shortlisted for two major literary awards. A second edition of the book, greatly expanded and fully updated, was published in 2012. His TED talk, 'Understanding the Rise of China', has been viewed nearly 2 million times.

Martin Jacques is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC.

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