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MR. WOO: Good morning. Welcome to the conference on China's economy. I am Wing Thye Woo, Senior Fellow at the John L. Thornton Center here at Brookings. The Brookings Institution under the leadership of Strobe Talbott and John Thornton recognizes the globally transformational nature of China's return to the center of the world stage. The Brookings Institution has responded in two unprecedented ways. First, Brookings has devoted a research center devoted to the comprehensive study of one country. This is a departure from the practice of where the center either focuses on a topic within a particular discipline, for example, the economics of health care, tax policy; or a particular issue within a broad geographical area, for example, conflict resolution in the Middle East, indirection between Europe and the United States. So this focus on a single country in a multidisciplinary approach represents a departure from the usual Brookings approach.
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