China Rising

November 23, 2011

Sunrise over Pudong (Shanghai). China could be the world's next economic superpower, says Subramanian (Paul Hardy/Corbis)
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China is swiftly closing in on the United States as the world's largest economy. The Asian nation's growth rate is several times that of the US, and China's economy could be the world's largest within a decade, according to Arvind Subramanian. In a new book, he envisages a world dominated by China's overwhelming economic power.
Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
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