Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 12 - 2 pm and will include lunch. The live stream will begin around 1:10 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Award-winning China journalist Bethany Allen will discuss how the Chinese Communist Party co-opted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy - capitalism - to expand its illiberal influence worldwide. Allen, who is now based in Taipei, will also lay out the most likely scenario by which China could take Taiwan, and show how economic coercion could play a key role in such a scenario.
Bethany Allen is the head of China investigations at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Australia's premier foreign policy think tank. Prior to joining ASPI, she was the China reporter at Axios, and opened the company's first-ever foreign bureau in Taipei.
Bethany previously served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' China Cables project, a major leak of classified Chinese government documents revealing the inner workings of mass internment camps in Xinjiang. For her work on the China Cables project, she received the Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award, the top prize awarded annually by the Society of Professional Journalists DC Dateline Awards.
The talk will be based in part on Allen’s book, Beijing Rules, which the Financial Times named a Best Book of 2023.
Bethany holds a masters degree in East Asian studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. She previously lived in China for four years, Washington DC for eight years, and is now based in Taiwan.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
