What Can We Expect from China at the G20?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Sophie Richardson, Joanna Lewis & more on September 1, 2016

On September 4-5, heads of the world’s major economies will meet in the southeastern city of Hangzhou for the G20 summit. The meeting represents “the most significant gathering of world leaders in China’s history,” according to The New York Times. Beijing’s growing international legitimacy belies domestic unease about Chinese Communist Party rule and international concern about Chinese power. We asked veteran China watchers what we can expect from discussions at the summit, beginning with looks at China’s record on human rights, the environment, and Beijing’s relationship with Moscow.

How to Deal With China’s Human Rights Abuses

By Sophie Richardson on September 1, 2016

When world leaders touch down in early September in the city of Hangzhou for this year’s G20 leaders’ summit, which China will they see? The one of glossy skylines, enviable growth statistics, and perfectly choreographed diplomatic exchanges? Or the one in which China’s prominent human and civil rights lawyers are detained, forcibly disappeared, and prosecuted on charges of subversion?

Philipp Ivanov

on September 1, 2016

Philipp Ivanov is currently Fulbright Scholar in Australian-United States Alliance Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2015 to 2023, Ivanov was the Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Society Australia Center. During his term as CEO, the consolidated its position as Australia’s leading business and policy think-tank on Asia. Previously, Ivanov worked on China policy at the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and as a Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. His commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Australian, ABC, Bloomberg News, CNBC, The Australian Financial Review, and Melbourne Asia Review. A fluent Chinese and Russian speaker, Ivanov studied Chinese history and Russia-China relations in Russia and China, and studied, lived, and worked in China for over six years. In May 2023, he will commence as Global Vice-President and Chief Programming Officer at Asia Society in New York.