China and the West in the 21st Century

01 June 2007

Will Hutton

China’s phenomenal economic growth is paralleled in scale and speed only by the rise of the United States between the Civil War and the First World War in 1914. Since 1978 the economy has grown ninefold, and is set to become the second largest within a decade. From inauspicious beginnings, China has become a $2 trillion economy because the Communist Party has channelled huge savings into investment, and encouraged millions of workers into its booming cities, the biggest migration in history.

In this lecture, Will Hutton, best-selling author of The State We’re In and The World We’re In , will discuss the probability of China attaining the baton of global leadership as the new superpower of the 21st century.

Broad Topics: Asia and the Pacific

Sub-topics: Economics, Policy & Political Science

Areas: ANU College of Business and Economics

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Will Hutton is Chief Executive of The Work Foundation and a columnist (and former editor in chief) for the Observer . He has written six books, including the best-selling The State We’re In and The World We’re In , and presented several topical television and radio series in the UK.