Who is Zhang Weiwei?

Zhang Weiwei ( simplified Chinese: 张维为; traditional Chinese: 張維為; pinyin: Zhāng Wéiwèi) is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University, and a senior research fellow at the Chunqiu Institute. He was a senior fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Graduate Institute…

Who is Zhang Zhang?

Zhang has written extensively in English and Chinese on China ‘s economic and political reform, China’s development model and comparative politics. According to Zhang, he worked as an English interpreter for some Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, in the mid-1980s.

Did Zhang Weiwei predict the Arab Spring?

He expanded on the concept of a civilization state with his book The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State (2012). Zhang Weiwei first predicted Arab Winter in his June 2011 debate with Francis Fukuyama, who believed Arab Spring might be spread to China.