Business
In this far-ranging discussion, historian and corporate consultant Kenneth J. DeWoskin places China's 40-year reform period in historical perspective and makes sense of campaigns like the China Dream and the Belt and Road Initiative against the backdrop of China's massive debt. He compares China's economic development with that of Japan, Korea, and the Southeast Asian "Tigers" and looks ahead to where China will be in the next five years.Ken is a former partner for China Strategy and Business Development at one of the Big Four, founder of Deloitte's China Research and Insight Centre, and now serves as a Senior Advisor and Eminence Fellow to Deloitte for China research and insight. He concurrently serves as Senior Advisor to The Conference Board China Center for Economics and Business. He is a frequent contributor to J Capital. A former professor of International Business and chairman and professor of Asian Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ken has been involved with China for over 50 years and has lived and worked extensively in both China and in Japan. Among his publications is the early study A Song for One or Two, the most thoughtful and subtle analysis in English of China's early music.