With the highly anticipated Chinese leadership transition scheduled to take place this fall, will the new top leaders continue economic reforms as planned and modify China’s political system as hoped, in order to adapt to a rapidly modernizing and urbanizing society? In this year-end article published by the Financial Times, Cheng Li examines what lies ahead for China and the world in 2012.
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