Grzegorz W. Kolodko is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw, and founder and Director of the TIGER Institute of Economic Affairs. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Finance, where he was a key architect of the economic reforms that brought Poland into the OECD in the 1990s. He is the author of Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future (Palgrave, 2014) and of Truth, Errors and Lies: Economics and Politics in a Volatile World (Columbia University Press, 2011). He has written widely for international media and his books have been translated into 16 different languages.

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Initial reflections

Chapter One: Economy and security

1. Cold War Two
2. Cascade of threats
3. Technology and politics

Chapter Two: The century of Asia with China leading the way?

1. A country in the middle of Asia
2. New Silk Road instead of exporting revolution
3. Nobody likes a hard landing

Chapter Three: People and goods in the changing world

1. Between a demographic explosion and a population deficit
2. How long, how fast?
3. Where is the East, where is the West?
4. Myth of the free market being perfect

Chapter Four: Socialism, capitalism or Chinism?

1. Economy - society - state
2. In search of equilibrium
3. Socialism with Chinese characteristics or corrupt crony capitalism?
4. Whither China and what business is it to others
5. Tertium datur

Chapter Five: Recipe for crisis

1. At the expense of many for the benefit of few
2. Legally but immorally

Chapter Six: What do the Chinese ask about?

1. Right questions at the right time
2. What students want to know
3. Chinese panoply of questions

Chapter Seven: New pragmatism with Chinese characteristics

1. Vision rather than illusions
2. 16+1 initiative
3. China coming to our rescue?

Final reflections
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