China and Democracy

China and Democracy A session from the 2012 Aspen Ideas festival. In much of the world, China is admiredor fearedas the rising new model of economic achievement under ruthlessly effective government direction. In the eyes of many others, the Chinese model is increasingly showing its contradictions and limits: economic, environmental, social, and political. Two of the world s leading exponents of these respective views discuss where they disagree, and whyand what the next stage is most likely to hold for the world s most populous and (until recently) fastestgrowing nation Speakers: Eric X. Li, Minxin Pei, James Fallows The Aspen Institute