China: Collapse or Fantasy

Date:	May 6, 2008
Time:	2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Speaker(s):	Gordon C. Chang Author of The Coming Collapse of China James Mann Author-in-Residence, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Author of The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression
Host(s):	Ambassador Harvey Feldman Distinguished Fellow in China Policy, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation
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Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium The connection between China’s economic performance and political liberalization has been much debated in policy circles. Is the slowing of Chinese economic reforms attributable to the hardwiring of its communist political culture? And, is this impasse a precursor to failure? Or, has the connection between economic and political reform always been simply a self-serving American “fantasy”? Join our discussion with leading proponents in this debate, two authors who hold rather different views on where China may be headed and the assumptions we make about our relationship.