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Conversations with History: Susan Shirk
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Susan Shirk, Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego, for a discussion of her new book, China: Fragile Superpower. A former Deputy Assistant Secre...
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I just feel it is naive to phrase China as a monster that may collapse at any moment or a monster can kill anytime. China is more complex than that. It has problems but it won't collapse as Susan said. It is gradually gaining strength, but it won't be the next empire. China is just trying to regain its status as the leader of East Asia, as it was in the past two thousand years.