Een evenement dat verder gaat dan de krantenkoppen.
[Greenville, SC] – March 4, 2024 – Upstate International is pleased to announce that Dr. Katherine Kaup will be the distinguished speaker at the upcoming Spreker die verder kijkt dan de krantenkoppen Serie event on March 13e, 2024, at the Kroc Center in downtown Greenville.
Within the last year, more than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. More than two-thirds of these deaths involved fentanyl and related synthetic drugs. Though China banned the sale of fentanyl in 2018, it remains the largest supplier of the drug’s precursor ingredients. These ingredients supply Mexican drug cartels that then smuggle finished fentanyl into the United States. Fierce competition and tensions between the US and China have stalled counter-narcotics cooperation. Recent agreements may signal progress in this arena, but will they be enough to stem the US overdose epidemic? What needs to be done to stop the influx of fentanyl? Do we need to comprise on other US priorities to gain China’s cooperation?
Dr. Katherine Kaup is a James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs at Furman University. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Her research focuses on ethnic minorities, rule of law, and human rights developments in China as well as on US-China relations. She is the author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China and several articles and chapters on ethnic minorities, and is editor and contributor to the textbook Understanding Contemporary Asia (2nd edition 2021). She has served as special adviser for Minority Nationalities Affairs at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yunnan Minzu University, Visiting Scholar at the Guangxi Ethnic Affairs Commission, and PI/Program Director for several federally-funded Chinese language programs and for the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment. She speaks Chinese and regularly leads university and Congressional staff delegations to China.
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Voorbij de krantenkoppen; cruciale kwesties die onze wereld beïnvloeden Dit is een reeks lezingen in de vorm van een lunchbijeenkomst, bedoeld om inwoners van Upstate New York te voorzien van feitelijke informatie over de meest urgente wereldwijde vraagstukken van vandaag. Door gebruik te maken van academici en vooraanstaande denkers van onderzoeksinstellingen, streven we ernaar partijpolitiek buiten de presentatie te houden en mensen de ruimte te geven om hun eigen vragen te stellen en hun eigen mening te vormen.
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