China in 2050: will it be a worldwide player or part of the world economy?

Xi Jinping, China's strongman head was in a far-reaching state of mind as he directed festivals denoting the 70th commemoration of the People's Republic in October. China, he stated, with a "glad civilization spreading over more than five millennia . . . will compose a progressively splendid section in our new voyage toward the acknowledgment of the two-century objectives and the Chinese long for incred....