DATE: November 06, 2007

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China the topic of first Clemson Renaissance Center global issues talk

CLEMSON — Xiaobo Hu, political science professor at Clemson University and director of the university’s Center for China Studies, is the featured speaker at the first Clemson Renaissance Center Global Issues Briefing at noon Friday at Larkin’s on the River in Greenville.

Hu’s presentation, “China – Past, Present and Future,” will address the changes under way in China and how those changes might impact the United States in terms of privatization and protection of private property rights, the political and economic power of the emerging middle class, future strategies for development in China and U.S.-China relations.

Hu has been at Clemson since 1999 and conducted research as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has covered China and Taiwan for Encyclopedia Britannica yearly review since 2002. Hu grew up in Nanjing, China, and studied at Beijing University before pursuing his Ph.D. at Duke University.

Cost for the Global Issues Briefing lunch is $15. Registration can be completed online at http://business.clemson.edu/rencenter/RenaissanceCtr.htm.