China & Global Economics

Is this the Chinese century? Ted traces the path of what today seems a clairvoyant argument outlined in his bestselling book, "China, Inc." and grounds it in the shifting global status today.

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Princeton-in-Asia Foundation

" Thank you for making Tuesday's Forum a truly excellent program. ... compliments from members have been pouring in. It was evident that the audience was engrossed."

The Economic Club of Chicago

"I, along with all the Senators in attendance found your comments extremely insightful and informative." -

The Honorable William H. Frist, M.D., United States Senator

"Ted Fishman was absolutely terrific. His work is relevant and presented with great humor, compassion, and lucidity."

Nonprofit (Washington Speakers Bureau)

"The Chicago journalist behind China, Inc. is back with an investigation that’s both timely and terrifying. The subtitle—“The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation”—says it all. (Though with his characteristic smarts, Fishman says it with a lot more nuance.)"

NewCityLit.com

"Readers should consider its messages and economic implications. What do we really want for ourselves, as individuals and a nation, as we age....The true mission of "Shock of Gray" is a...call to confront the demographic drama now unfolding in many middle- and high-income countries, not to proffer solutions."

Los Angeles Times

"If the twentieth was the American century, then the twenty-first belongs to China. It's that simple, Ted C. Fishman says, and anyone who doubts it should take his whirlwind tour of the world's fastest-developing economy."

The New York Times

No country since the rise of the United States has ever challenged the rest of the world on so many fronts as the rise and strengths of China does today. China now leads global production in multiple industries – and in cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computing and robotics. China has also embarked on the most ambitious stimulus plan and infrastructure building effort in the world.

China is vastly investing in its education system and scientific research to push the nation and its people to the top of the world economy. The stakes are enormously high for people everywhere. Fishman explores the fundamental drivers of China's push and what the rest of the world must do to keep up, and insure that China's drive creates prosperity at home, in the United States or wherever home may be.