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CONTACT:rdsociety@royalsoc.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:The Research and Development Society
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DESCRIPTION:The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set t
 o make the 21st century its own. Will Hutton\, chief executive of The Work 
 Foundation\, here and in his provocative and stimulating new book warns ins
 tead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from wit
 hin that could well derail its rise and\, in turn\, deliver a crippling sho
 ck to the global economy. Britain\, Europe and the US must recognise that t
 hey have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen.
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\nChin
 a's effect on our lives is reflected in our house prices\, the inequality i
 n our wages and the prices we pay in our shops. Yet China is burdened by a 
 weak enterprise system\, growing social protest and environmental degradati
 on.
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\nHutton will show how the contradictions of an authoritarian state 
 are fundamentally disabling and argues that if China is to complete the tra
 nsition to capitalism upon which it has embarked\, it has no choice but to 
 embrace the mechanisms that make business and government accountable to peo
 ple - from a free press to representative governance. This is a powerful wa
 rning that global peace and prosperity depend upon successful transition. 
SUMMARY:The Writing On The Wall - China and the West in the 21st Century 
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