Walter Russell Mead parses a freaky new report:
China’s growth is likely to slow to 8.7 percent next year, 6.6 percent in each the four years after that, and then average 3.5 percent per year between 2017 and 2025. It has long been an article of faith inside China and among most China watchers that the country needs 9 percent growth per year to avoid widespread instability. If China’s growth decelerates that fast, that far, the biggest question in world politics won’t be how the rest of us will accommodate China’s rise. The question will shift to whether China can last.
Geoffrey Gresh sees a (for now) rising China as increasingly critical to America's Middle East strategy. Robert Farley thinks any GOP President will have a tough time successfully managing our relationship with the Asian power.
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