On China's Rise

摘要

I recently spent ten days in china, where I attended, among other meetings, the Boao Forum, China's quite new, but already regionally important, annual Asian economic conference. I listened―both in public and in private meetings―to numerous Chinese government officials, including President Hu Jintao. I began this trip expecting to hear and prepared to accept a significant amount of boasting from Chinese leaders about China's economic growth compared with other developing countries'. After all, China's leaders are, as are officials in any other country, in the business of promoting their nation. And China's record of economic improvement is indeed striking, by any measure.