MIT Starr Forum | The Rise and Fall of the EAST

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline

In-person event only | Books signed and sold at the event | Registration is not required

Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, and faculty director of the MIT-China Program at the Center for International Studies.

Discussant: Will Knight, senior writer, Wired magazine, covers artificial intelligence and other emerging technology. He was previously a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where he wrote about fundamental advances in AI and China’s AI boom.

Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies, the MIT-China Program, and the MIT COOP.