Niall Ferguson - When East Beats West: The Shifting Balance of Global Economic Power

[littlechineseshrimp]

awesome 2016 viva china

[ToolBeing]

Niall Ferguson's actual talk starts t=22m55s. 

[stephentsang2000]

Most of the speakers were just reading! That's why such ceremonies are so dull~

[MrBloody32]

Niall comes out at 23:05

[duke1duke1]

Adding Taiwan and China's GDP together is like tacking Canada onto the US, except those two countries are not at war with each other. What a stretch...

[byEFKT]

@duke1duke1 not that much of a stretch since they used to be the same country till the chinese civil war in the mid 20th century. It's not beyond reason they could become united again.

[stephentsang2000]

@duke1duke1

Taiwan's economy is already incorporated into greater China's sphere. The current largest importer of Taiwanese products is not USA, but China.

[stephentsang2000]

Speaking of patents, the country with the largest number of patents in force on per capita basis around the world is Hong Kong, not Japan. With a population of 7 million, as opposed to Japan's 130 million, Hong Kong's patent number is only 1 / 6 of Japan. Japanese are not the greatest inventor neither in the world, not in Asia. Hong Kong is.