What is the point of attending China’s most important public forum if foreign delegates are instructed before going on stage not to say anything negative about the economic outlook.
After my recent trip to Beijing to attend the 25th annual China Development Forum, the country’s most important public conference, one question keeps turning over in my head: What’s the point?
I raise this question as a CDF insider – as the longest-attending foreign delegate, having participated in all but the first CDF in 2000.
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Stephen S. Roach is a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
