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December 17, 2009

Chinese Growth: Friendly Uncle or Roaring Dragon???

Filed under: Minerva School — Dr David Caploe @ 6:07 am

During the decade after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China was generally seen throughout East Asia as a friendly alternative power-center to the American-led Washington-consensus.

But in the last couple of years, some of China’s neighbours are beginning to wonder if ‘friendly uncle’ is more of a ‘roaring dragon’ — one which, ironically, its own people might have the most to fear from.

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