WILL HUTTON - The Writing on the Wall March 25, 2007

4 pm • £7.50 • Newman Rooms

Over the last twenty years China’s economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world, and if that pace continues over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The re-emergence of China as a superpower constitutes the biggest challenge the world has had for more than a century. Never before in modern times has the financial, trade, economic and diplomatic world pecking order been so profoundly reconstituted with the challenger country itself in the grips of incredible ideological and political change. Will Hutton discusses the transition both within China and in its relations with the rest of the world, with all the hazards and risks involved.

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