16
July 2025
Past Event
After the Fall: Planning for a Post-Communist China

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: [email protected].

After the Fall: Planning for a Post-Communist China

Past Event
Hudson Institute
July 16, 2025
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The sun rises of the Gubeikou Great Wall in Beijing on September 28, 2023. (Fei Maohua via Getty Images)
16
July 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: [email protected].

Speakers:
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John P. Walters

President and CEO

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Randall Schriver

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs

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Gordon G. Chang

Former Counsel to Paul Weiss LLC, Shanghai, and Partner, Baker and McKenzie, Hong Kong

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Rick Fisher

Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center

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Piero Tozzi

Staff Director, Congressional-Executive Commission on China

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William Nee

Senior Manager, Asia Regional Program, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Nina Shea
Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

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Donald Clarke

Professor Emeritus, George Washington University Law School

Moderator:
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Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has weathered crises before, a sudden regime collapse in China is not entirely unthinkable. Policymakers need to consider what might happen and what steps they would have to take if the world’s longest-ruling Communist  dictatorship and second-largest economy collapses. 

Hudson Institute’s China Center will convene experts and policymakers to discuss the potential collapse of CCP authority in China. The event will examine the possibilities and analyze what steps the United States should take in the immediate aftermath to stabilize China’s political, economic, and social institutions. Finally, they will assess the forces required to shape China’s post-CCP future.

The conference will feature remarks from experts in military affairs, intelligence, economics, human rights, transitional justice, and constitutional governance, and include two moderated panels to discuss the larger implications of a potential CCP collapse on regional and global security.

Agenda

8:30 a.m. |  Registration

9:00 a.m. | Welcome Remarks

  • John Walters, President and CEO, Hudson Institute

9:05 a.m. | Opening Remarks

  • Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center, Hudson Institute

9:15 a.m. | Panel 1: After Collapse—Security Implications and the International Community’s Response

  • Randall Schriver, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs
  • Gordon G. Chang, Former Counsel to Paul Weiss LLC, Shanghai, and Partner, Baker and McKenzie, Hong Kong
  • Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center

Moderator

  • Dr. Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center, Hudson Institute

10:30 a.m. | Panel 2: Disintegration—Ethnic Grievances, Constitutional Convention, and Democratization Process

  • Piero Tozzi, Staff Director, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • William Nee, Senior Manager, Asia Regional Program, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
  • Nina Shea, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
  • Donald Clarke, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University Law School

Moderator

  • Dr. Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center, Hudson Institute
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