Illuminating the shadow side of the Chinese Century

While China’s breakneck economic growth has driven huge societal change, it also hides a multitude AP

Politics: China’s Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon, Little, Brown €23

Just how much do you know about China?

There’s a flat-pack set of facts that everyone knows about the world’s most populous country, chief among which is that this will be the Chinese century. Briefly, this truism holds that driven by sheer weight of population numbers, rising wealth and increasing economic liberalisation, China’s economic power will give it the chance to ...