The Importance of Spiritual Foundation in the Chinese Society

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I wanted to know why Chinese people say they're so unhappy. I would just say that their ranking on happiness is more or less their ranking on GDP per head. We have missed this. China is an enormous country and it's therefore an enormous economy, but it's still a really quite poor country. The BRI is something that could be, the BRI could make a very big positive difference. At the moment, my view is we don't know whether it will.

Is China, with its unfair trade policies and shameless theft of intellectual property, an enemy that needs to be reined in? Or is it in the West’s best interests to view China as a strategic partner and aim for mutual respect and cooperation? We were joined by Beijing-born Professor of Economics at the LSE Keyu Jin; politician and former cabinet minister Sir Malcolm Rifkind; and Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the FT. The event was chaired by Carrie Gracie, BBC News Presenter and the BBC’s first China Editor.

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