Democracy in China: An Inevitable Development?

What is the potential for democratic development in China? How and when can democracy be implemented? What role should France have in China’s evolution towards democracy? 
Watch the interview with Chinese dissident Wang Dan to hear his analysis on democratic change in China and the significance of the younger generation.

From June 26-28, Sciences Po hosted the International Asian Studies Conference. The three-day event, referred to as Sciences Po Asia Days, saw participants from around the world gather to hear leading specialists in the region share their latest research.  For the occasion, Sciences Po - CERI (Center for International Studies) invited Wang Dan, a prominent student leader during the Tiananmen Square movement in 1989 and a strong advocate of democratic change in China to this day. Along with Karoline Postel-Vinay, senior researcher at Sciences Po - CERI, Susan Shirk, research professor at the University of California, San Diego and Steven K. Vogel, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Wang Dan participated in a roundtable discussion on democracy in Asia on June 27. 
 
To learn more about Wang Dan and his role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement at Tiananmen Square, read the following biography.