March 18, 2026 — This episode of China’s DeepSeek Moment webinar series from the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA) examines China’s accelerating push to digitize its healthcare system. China is increasingly leveraging technological tools to address long-standing structural challenges, including uneven access between urban and rural areas, overstretched hospitals, healthcare workforce shortages, mounting pressure from the aging population, and rise in chronic disease. Yet healthcare is a high-stakes domain where rapid tech adoption, including artificial intelligence (AI), raises questions about safety, governance, data integrity, and public trust. Lizzi C. Lee, CCA fellow on Chinese Economy, is joined by Winnie Yip, professor of the Practice of Global Public Health Policy and Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Ruby Wang, CCA honorary fellow on Global Public Health, to assess where health tech is delivering real value, where risks are accumulating, and what China’s “AI + healthcare” strategy may mean for China’s health-system reform and global health innovation. (46 min., 5 sec.)

March 2, 2026 — In this episode of Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis's China’s DeepSeek Moment series, the discussion takes stock of China’s AI landscape one year after DeepSeek first captured global attention. What began as a surprise model release has evolved into a broader surge across China’s AI ecosystem — from new flagship models by major tech firms and startups, including Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Zhipu, to accelerating open-source momentum and ByteDance’s viral Seedance 2.0 video-generation model. The conversation also examines new progress in domestic semiconductors and embodied AI, highlighted by Unitree’s humanoid robots stealing the spotlight at China’s Spring Festival Gala. CCA Fellow on the Chinese Economy Lizzi C. Lee moderates a conversation with CCA Honorary Senior Fellows Alvin Wang Graylin and Paul Triolo to assess whether the gap between the United States and China is narrowing, shifting, or fundamentally misunderstood, and to explore what the next phase of AI competition, cooperation, and policy may look like. (47 min., 57 sec.)

January 29, 2025 — In January 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled its R1 model, a large language model that rivals leading AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The announcement triggered a significant market reaction, with major tech stocks experiencing substantial declines. Nvidia’s shares plummeted nearly 18%, contributing to a broader tech selloff that wiped out approximately $1 trillion in market value.

In the first of a three-part webinar series presented by the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA), titled China’s DeepSeek Moment, experts unpack the implications of this groundbreaking development for the global tech landscape and the ongoing U.S.-China technological rivalry.

Moderated by Lizzi C. Lee, CCA fellow on Chinese Economy, the discussion features Paul Triolo, CCA honorary senior fellow on Chinese Technology; Qiheng Chen, CCA affiliated researcher; and Jenny Xiao, partner at Leonis Capital. Jing Qian, CCA Co-Founder and Managing Director, gives introductory remarks. (39 min., 22 sec.)

August 22, 2025 — In this episode of the China’s DeepSeek Moment webinar series by the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA), CCA Fellow Lizzi C. Lee is joined by Rui Ma, Chief Operating Officer at AlphaWatch.AI; Paul Triolo, CCA Honorary Senior Fellow on Technology; and Selina Xu, China and AI Policy Lead at the Office of Eric Schmidt, to unpack on-the-ground takeaways from China’s fast-evolving tech landscape, including the 2025 Shanghai AI Conference and an upcoming robotics expo, and what they mean for U.S.-China tech competition.

The panel gauges remaining bottlenecks across graphics processing units, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces and assesses the pace of AI adoption and applications, including emerging trends, such as agents and multimodality. The discussion also takes the temperature of investment sentiment amid uneven macro signals before closing with predictions on where China’s next “DeepSeek-style” breakthrough is most likely to emerge. (53min., 52 sec.)