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China has become a global manufacturing superpower, and U.S. election-year rhetoric presupposes that China’s economic might knows no boundaries, and that it poses a threat to America. But doubts persist about the nation’s ability to ever become an innovation superpower. Will China succeed at fostering creative incubators on par with Silicon Valley and America’s great research universities? And, contrary to the zero-sum nature of political rhetoric, should Americans root for China’s innovators?

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Participants

Yasheng Huang –
Professor of International Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Adam Segal –
Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Denis Simon –
Vice Provost for International Strategic Initiatives, Arizona State University

Yifei Sun –
Associate Professor of Geography, California State University, Northridge

Moderator
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Washington Correspondent, Quartz magazine
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation