On Monday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m., join China scholar and author Doug Guthrie when he explains how Phoenix truly is at ground zero in this international dynamic, with a fast-growing metropolitan economy, one of the world’s most important semiconductor production companies, and the building of three new fabrication productions facilities.
In 2001, China entered the World Trade Organization and it would soon become the world’s second largest economy and America’s largest trading partner. The interdependence between our economies grew over the next decades as American companies like Apple, Walmart, Tesla, and many others became deeply embedded in and dependent upon China’s manufacturing supply chain, and China became the largest exporter of products to the United States. As China’s manufacturing supply chain became more and more sophisticated, American companies grew increasingly dependent upon its largest trading partner.
Today, the relationship is big, complex, and somewhat scary. Are America’s best interests in embracing, cultivating, and expanding economic relations with China or do we need a reassessment, a pause, or a disentanglement of the unwieldy bonds of mutual dependance?
Doug Guthrie has been a China specialist since the late 1980s, when he began studying Chinese language, literature, and history at the University of Chicago. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, Guthrie was a Professor of Management and Sociology at New York University for several years (1997-2010) and served as Dean of the School of Business and Vice President for University China Operations at the George Washington University (2010-14).
From 2015-2019, he was a Senior Director at Apple and was based in China. Currently, he is Professor of Global Leadership at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he is also Executive Director of China Initiatives. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Professor Guthrie received an AB in East Asian languages (concentration in Chinese literature) from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD degrees in organizational sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. In college he studied in Taipei, Taiwan, conducted PhD research in Shanghai, China. He has authored and edited books, academic articles, popular articles, reports on Chinese economic reform, leadership and corporate social responsibility, and strategic economic development in American cities.
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. in the lobby of the Renaissance Theater and are $5 at the door. No registration is required.
The theater is equipped with a hearing loop system which is a special type of sound system for people who use hearing aids. The loop system provides a magnetic wireless signal that is picked up by a hearing aid when it is set to the T-setting (telecoil). Many hearing aids are equipped with telecoil technology.
