Alexandra Harney, Former China Correspondent, Financial Times

Duration

58:58

The China Price: The True Cost of the Chinese Competitive Advantage

Alexandra Harney, Former China Correspondent, Financial Times

Harney, an acclaimed journalist and former correspondent for the Financial Times, will discuss her landmark expose of how China’s factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its future and the environment, creating a gold-rush atmosphere in the process, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich. Rampant corruption and under-funded regulatory mechanisms offer little accountability. She will tell the personal stories of its workers, including a look at how China’s economy has sparked the largest mass migration in human history

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on April 17, 2008

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