US-China Cyber Conflicts: TikTok, WeChat, and Sino-American Relations Today (Oct. 8, 2020)

Thursday October 8, 4:30- 5:40 PM

Virtual Event via Zoom

To open this year’s BUCSA annual theme DIGITAL ASIA, we are pleased to present a roundtable discussion on the contentious planned banning in the United States of the popular Chinese apps Tik Tok and Wechat. Our panel of specialists detailed below will explore the impact on users in the United States and China (including, of course, many students, faculty, staff and their families at BU and beyond), and how this new policy will affect the political, economic, social and cybersecurity relations between the two countries.

Introduction

Prof. Thomas Berger (Director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia, and Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University), and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (Associate Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, Boston University)

Moderator

Prof. James Katz (Feld Professor of Emerging Media, and Director, Emerging Media Studies Division, College of Communication, Boston University)

Presentations

“The Politics of Sino-US Cyber-relations around TikTok and WeChat” by Prof. Min Ye (Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University)

“WeChat/TikTok 101: A Communication Perspective” by Prof. Lei Guo (Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies Division, College of Communication, Boston University)

“TikTok, WeChat and Cybersecurity Issues” by Prof. Jack Weinstein (Professor of the Practice, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University,  and Lieutenant General, USAF [Ret.])

Q&A with the audience will follow

To join this event, please register here to receive the meeting link on Tuesday, 10/6:

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