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Will China rule the world? Laurie Taylor talks to Yuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and author of a study which explores China's unusual route out of poverty. They're joined by David Tyfield, Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, and author of new book examining the prospects for an alternative global power regime. Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
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| 0:30.3 | How did China move 800 million people out of poverty in a mere 30 years? |
| 0:38.0 | Find out. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello. |
| 0:41.0 | Stephen Potter in one of his gamesmanship books recommends the use of the phrase |
| 0:44.8 | yeah but not in the south there's a way of disparaging any overconfident |
| 0:49.8 | assertion made by a member of one's conversational circle. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, an old colleague of mine, let's call him Jeff, he could readily achieve a very, very |
| 0:59.2 | similar effect at the dinner table by announcing that what had been asserted by one or other fellow |
| 1:04.5 | guest was probably not true in China. Well, what gave Jeff's gambit such power was the collective guilt that hung over any such gathering. |
| 1:25.0 | The recognition that none of us knew as much about China as its place in the world surely demanded. |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, was there anyone present who could knowledgeably about the causes and the nature of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in which 2 million people died? |
| 1:38.0 | Most of us I suspect knew rather more about the French Revolution. |
| 1:42.0 | And was there anyone who could adequately explain the reason? knew rather more about the French Revolution. |
| 1:42.6 | And was there anyone who could adequately explain the reasons for China's dramatic |
| 1:46.0 | development into the world's second largest economy? |
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