Agenda BGF Conference: Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7 📍 Harvard University Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 📅 Tuesday, April 22, 2025 🕗 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT 8:00 AM – 8:20 AM Registration & Welcome Coffee Arrival...
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Toward a New Economic Alliance: U.S., Japan, India, Vietnam, South Korea, EU, UK
Boston Global Forum Statement Date: April 12, 2025 The recent tariff policy announced by President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet marks an important decision in U.S. economic and strategic policy. It underscores the growing importance of alliances and...
The U.S., Europe, and China
(BGF) - Will Europe have a strong enough voice in resolving disputes in the East Asia, or just leave it to the U.S? The Harvard professor Joseph Nye, member of the Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, shared his view in the course of BGF's one month length...
South China Seas and the Paracel Islands
(BGF) - The U.S. Ambassador James D. Bindenagel believed that the resurgence of nationalism past which lurks behind modern leaders' mind is the truly root of the world's current conflicts and imposes dangerous challenge to the liberal international order that exists...
THE WORLD’S MISTAKES IN DEALING WITH CHINA
(BGF) - China has being seen as a third world country where the U.S and Western countries lay their manufacturing factories. And the real fact is, most of them are underestimating China. The world did not realize the truly danger of Chinese extreme nationalism which...
Could this map of China start a war?
(BGF) – This Washington Post article reports on a map released by Chinese authorities showing all of China's territorial claims. Author Ishaan Tharoor argues that the map may flare tensions in Asia, with China's increasing assertiveness posing a growing threat to its...
The Challenges of Democratizing News and Information: Examining Data on Social Media, Viral Patterns and Digital Influence
(BGF) - Social media are thought to be systems where people create and receive information, and will prevail in the future. And yet, we have seen amazing examples of “nobodies” becoming “somebodies” overnight, and a piece of information can be retweeted million times,...
The Illusion of Chinese Power
(BGF) - In this article featured in The National Interest, David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and author of "China Goes Global: The Partial Power", analyzes China's rise. Shambaugh sets out to...