James Kynge, a recipient of several journalism awards, was the China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times for seven years until 2005. He has worked in China for 14 of the last 25 years and currently heads up the business operations of a publishing multinational in Beijing. In October 2006 James Kynge won the Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for his best-seller 'China Shakes the World'.
"The future may be involved less with how the world is changing China than how China is changing the world" James Kynge
In detail
James Kynge spent 19 years as a journalist in Asia, a decade for Reuters and a decade for the Financial Times. He covered many of the events that have helped shape the region during this time - including the Japanese economic bubble and its deflation, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the independence of Mongolia in 1990/91, the rise to nationhood of the five former Soviet central Asian republics in the early 1990s, the China-Taiwan missile crisis of 1996 followed by Taiwan's first presidential election, the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and China's emergence as a great economic power since 1998.
What he offers you
As a speaker, James weaves his impressions together with gentle humour to elucidate some of the biggest questions of our time. Can Europe and America compete with a rising China? Can the world accommodate a country that is in its character and convictions very different from the world created under Pax Americana since the end of World War Two? He also talks in greater detail about the economic, social and political changes sweeping China itself, drawing on an association with the country that goes back to 1982.
How he presents
A much respected voice on developments in China, his relentless pursuit of the truth allows James to offer unique presentations that are informative, insightful and unforgettable.
Languages
He presents in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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