Assessing China’s Future

No nation is more important to Asia's Future than China - Indeed China's Evolution has global consequences. The nation is now major power, but is also simultaneously facing a variety of qualitatively new challenges to its economy and growth model, in society and politics, and its external relations. Depending on the choices made and path taken by China's leadership - particularly at and after the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress scheduled for this autumn - China's alternative development pathways will become clearer. In this lecture, the international authority on China and best-selling author Professor David Shambaugh summarized the findings and predictions from his latest book China's Future (2016)