China is in an age of rapid technology development with AI, robots and drones – and many fear this relentless progress, and Xi Jinping’s desire to reabsorb Taiwan, will bring it into direct conflict with the United States.
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But is China’s rise as inevitable and smooth as its leaders want it to be?
Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has returned from a trip to China where she was Channel 4 News’ correspondent for years.
She was wowed by technological progress – but also found a younger generation exhausted and overwhelmed by political pressure, depression and burnout.
On this episode of The Fourcast, Lindsey and Matt Frei were joined by economist Dan Wang, author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, who argues that China’s system has unique strengths – and dangerous weaknesses – in the race for technological supremacy.
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