China Now
Professor Susan Shirk Guest Speaker on NPR Radio Program
10/18/2007
Tom Ashbrook,
On Point Radio
China looks like a giant these days -- and in many, many ways it is. The Chinese boom has flooded the world with mountains of Chinese products. It has flooded China's treasury with cash and built a red-hot economy on China's booming coast.
But as the 17th Communist Party Congress sat down in Beijing this week -- and yes, the Communist Party still runs this supernova -- it is China's weaknesses that are getting a lot of attention: Corruption. Pollution. Vast inequalities. And big political estions. So, is this the Chinese century?
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