Whither China?

Whither China?

- Speaker: Richard Cooper, Professor, Harvard University

- Date: June 30, 2006.

"Continued rapid growth in China requires peace and prosperity in the rest of the world. China thrives on a benign international environment, and China’s current leaders understand that well. Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) depends on delivering economic prosperity at home, as does the “peaceful rise” of China in the society of nations. But China will have at least two sets of new leaders by 2025.If the leaders of 2025 are around 60 years in age, they will have been born around 1965 and reached college age in the radically changed environment of 1985.Their parents will have been the victims, or in a few cases the perpetrators, of the Cultural Revolution..."