How to Manage China's Challenge to the Global Economy [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
Dr. Fred Bergsten, the director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discusses his new article in Foreign Affairs, "A...
Speaker: C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Presider: Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, and Deputy Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
June 19, 2008
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