International rivalries can draw powerful states into local political disputes sometimes with disastrous consequences but the United States and China can avoid the mistakes of the Cold War.
About this event
Join us for our first ANU China Seminar Series of Semester 2!
We re joined by Taomo Zhou from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who will be speaking to you about Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore: Ships and the Changing Relationship between China and the World .
This seminar is free and open to all members within ANU and in the public!
About the talk:
This talk tells a backstory of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by tracing the voyages of three Chinese ships managed by the China Ocean Shipping Bureau both as mobile vessels at sea and as permanent presence on land. People’s Republic of China (PRC) ships functioned as a distinctive type of state space in international waters, remotely serving but temporarily disconnected from the PRC state. When mobile at the sea, these ships functioned as vessels not only for passengers and commodities but also for the Maoist ideology; upon their arrivals in foreign ports, the ships became