The rise of China and the decline of the West have been hotly discussed and even debated domestically and internationally in recent years, and this phenomenon has a huge impact on China's economic, trade, security, and geo-political relations with the United States, Europe, and even the West as a whole. The potential changes to the international order as a result of the
“rise of the East and the fall of the West”
have also been of great interest to countries around the world, including the Global South. To this end, sponsored by Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, the China-US People-to-People Exchange Research Center, Renmin University of China, organizes a series of Area Studies lectures, inviting Mr. Martin Jacques, a renowned British scholar, former Senior Fellow of Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, to deliver a keynote speech to share his perspectives on the impact of China’s rise on the current world situation, trends of Sino-Western relations and changes in relative power. The schedule is as follows: