The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently held a round table discussion to answer the question: Is China’s Economy Tanking? Full transcripts of the event are available here:
The Chinese government recently released economic data showing that China’s GDP growth fell to 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2008. Given that double-digit growth has become the norm for the East Asian powerhouse, many observers are wondering out loud – “Is China’s economy tanking?”
To address that question and the numerous issues that it raises, Carnegie assembled a distinguished panel: Pieter Botellier, an economist and China scholar who has served as a Senior Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies since 1999; Donald Hanna, a Managing Director and Global Head of the Emerging Markets team in the Economic and Market Analysis department at Citigroup in New York; and Carnegie’s Albert Keidel. Carnegie’s Michael Swaine moderated the event.
