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Hello, tonight, some of the biggest conversations on the globe are here on nightwaves.

India is supposed to be the world's biggest democracy,

but top Indian politicians and thinkers tell us about worrying signs that it's losing its taste for free speech. China's

economy may be slowing down, but shadow cabinet member Liam Byrne tells us why we might have to

turn east if we're to have any hope of exiting austerity. And one of our new generation

thinkers, Alice Hall, will tell us what it's like to be superhuman.

First, people have proposed an awful lot of solutions for this country to escape from the world economic crisis.

Quantitative easing, reducing immigration. But this week, a prominent British politician is proposing a rather different solution, that it's time to get closer to Beijing.

Liam Byrne is Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, but he's taken time away from the day job to write a provocative new book, suggesting that we're looking for economic growth

in all the wrong places, and that trading with China may be the jolt of electricity needed

to revive the prone body that is the UK economy.

But is it wise to bet the farm on a society whose record on democracy and stability

sometimes looks as shaky as a piece of soy-flavoured bean curd?

Well, Liam Byrne came to the studio earlier,

and we were joined by Linda Yu, the BBC's chief Asia business correspondent and visiting

Professor of Economics at Peking University, who's written a new book on China's economic growth.

First, I ask Linda, we've all noticed that the one-child policy has created a rapidly aging

population in China. So isn't that going to be a time bomb for the Chinese economy, just as Britain seeks to get close to it? I think you've actually hit the nail on the head in terms of what I most worry about in terms of the demography, which is not the labour force. I mean, it's the most populous nation on earth, 1.4 billion people. I think there'll be people. It's just the people are aged and don't have proper old age support.

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