June 2013 Academic & Specialist Ingram Publisher Services International

Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series

China in 2020 Angang Hu, foreword by John L. Thornton, introduction by Cheng Li

Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series

China in 2020
Angang Hu, foreword by John L. Thornton, introduction by Cheng Li


After three decades of unprecedented economic growth, China is now the world’s largest exporter, its largest carbon emitter, and the second-largest economy. Extrapolating from these seismic changes, Hu Angang forecasts that by 2020 China will become a “mature, responsible, and attractive superpower” that will contribute, alongside the EU, to the “end of the unipolar era dominated by the United States.”