China’s rapidly aging population and increasingly rigid, autocratic political system will severely hobble the country as it stumbles towards the middle of the twenty-first century.
Professor Jane Golley presented the annual ANU China in the World lecture on Tuesday 23 August. Here is an abridged version of her lecture on the Chinese economy. The Chinese economy has long been a source of contention, with predictions of its imminent collapse pitted against portrayals of its strength and resilience. Is China’s competitive edge dying as it runs out of