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Who will run the world in 20 years?

The Real Story

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The Future of China

Owen Bennett Jones: It's one thing to project Xi Jinping's ambition and what he wants to do is a different thing to assess realistically whether he will be able to achieve his objectives. In terms of the future, I see two futures assume that there's peace. Then I'm reasonably confident that the West and China will both be economically significantly powerful. But if this complicated situation breaks down and ends up in war, then we're in a different universe altogether. The world will be in ash heap. That's it for this edition of the Real Story.

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