In his new book, When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques argues that this "civilisation state" will change the world as we know it. He will discuss the rise of China and the west's response with Labour peer Lord Desai.

Speakers: Martin Jacques; author of When China Rules The World, New Statesman columnist and a visiting fellow at the LSE Asia Research Centre; Lord Desai, LSE Professor Emeritus, former Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and author of Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism

Chair: Mehdi Hasan, Senior Editor (politics),New Statesman

Organiser: New Statesman
Venue: Borders book store, 122 Charing Cross Road, London
Email: Cailin@newstatesman.co.uk

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