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CURRENT
AFFAIRS
World
Leaders To Visit Asia Society During United Nations General Assembly
Week
As
world leaders arrive in New York for next week’s United Nations General
Assembly, Asia Society will
play host to heads of state and dignitaries from across Asia
for a series of probing, insightful discussions.
This year’s participants include Imran Khan, prime
minister of Pakistan; Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha;
Afghanistan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib; Subrahmanyam Jaishankar,
India’s minister of external affairs; and Philippines Secretary of
Foreign Affairs Teodoro L. Locsin. In
addition, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook will
deliver an address before engaging in conversation with Asia
Society President and CEO Josette
Sheeran.
Each of these programs will be available worldwide via free live
webcast — check
out our schedule for details. Can’t catch it live? Be sure
to subscribe to our
YouTube channel, where you can watch each program, in full,
after the event as well as hundreds of past programs on policy,
business, current affairs, education, and the arts.
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SPECIAL
EVENTS
Asia Society’s Sixth Annual Asia Game Changer Awards
To Celebrate Female Honorees
Asia
Society’s sixth
annual Asia Game Changer Awards, held this year at
Cipriani in New York on October 24, celebrates individuals and
groups who have made a tremendous impact.
This year, for the first time, all of our honorees are women.
The honorees include Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose political
career has shattered glass ceilings in Japan; Chhaya Sharma,
a police official who has solved high-profile murder cases in India; Jane Jie Sun,
the trailblazing CEO of China’s Ctrip, a $25 billion travel company
where more than half the employees are women; and Faiza Saeed,
who became the first woman to lead Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a
200-year-old law firm.
There’s Sana
Mir, one of the world’s greatest cricketers and former
captain of Pakistan’s national team; Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, a
pioneer in the art world who has tirelessly promoted understanding and
cultural exchange in the Middle East; and the Kung Fu Nuns of the Drukpa
Lineage, who have used their martial arts skills to
empower girls and women in the Himalayan region and beyond.
In addition to a celebration of these remarkable women, this year’s
Asia Game Changer Awards will feature special presentations from, among
others, celebrated businesswoman Indra
Nooyi and figure skating champions Alex and Mai Shibutani.
Click here
to learn more about the Asia Game Changer Awards and this
year’s slate of honorees.
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POLICY
Kevin Rudd
on U.S.-China Trade
Asia
Society Policy Institute President Kevin Rudd
appeared on CNBC’s Squawk
Box on Monday to talk about the U.S.-China trade
war, which, he argues, is entering a crucial stretch.
“The
political timetable in Beijing is critical going into the events of
2020,” he said. “[Chinese President] Xi Jinping has two scripts:
either to reboot growth in the economy, which is already soft, and
assuage those critics who think he’s mismanaged it — or face a
political liability.”
“President
[Donald] Trump,
as you know, has a not dissimilar problem in terms of his own
re-election in 2020 if [the trade war] compounds the softness in
American growth," Rudd added.
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ARTS
A Chinese Calligraphy Master Demonstrates His Craft
Wang
Dongling is widely recognized
as one of the most celebrated living calligraphers from China. In this
newly published video, Wang demonstrates his technique in a
performance of Laozi,
Dao De Jing, Chapter I & II and discusses his passion
for calligraphy with Asia Society Museum John F. Foster Curator of
Traditional Asian Art Adriana
Proser.
The exhibition Wang
Dongling: Ink in Motion, which features Laozi, Dao De Jing, Chapter
I & II, is now on display at Asia Society Museum in New
York through January 5, 2020. Learn
more.
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ETC
North Korean Hackers, Digital Addicts in India,
U.S.-China Trade
- Last
week the U.S. Treasury Department announced it
would sanction three North Korean hacking groups
accused of carrying out cyberattacks. Daniel Russel,
Asia Society Policy Institute vice president, discussed North
Korea’s “extortion business” on
CNN.
- Asia Society India
convened a
panel discussion on U.S.-China trade that included Nirupama Rao,
the country’s former ambassador to China and the United States.
- Also from Asia Society
India: a discussion on the rise
of digital addiction in the country, mirroring a trend
found throughout the world and one not dissimilar to drugs and
alcohol addiction.
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