Zócalo Public Square

As America retreats from global leadership—blowing up trade agreements, questioning longstanding security alliances, dropping out of the Paris climate accord—China is stepping into the void. Yet for all its advances, China remains a developing country itself, with one of the world’s most repressive governments. UCLA Anderson economist Jerry Nickelsburg, biotech executive Yiwen Li, UCLA Anderson business administration scholar Christopher S. Tang, and UC San Diego political economist Ruixue Jia, along with moderator Julie Makinen, former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times, on Nov. 16, 2017 took part in a Zócalo/UCLA panel discussion titled “Is China Prepared to Lead the Global Economy?” at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles.