As discussed in his new book, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Missoula native Dexter Roberts will describe how surging income inequality, an unfair social welfare system, and rising social tensions block China’s continued economic rise with implications for companies and countries around the world. Moderated by special guest Bay Fang, recently President of Radio Free Asia.

Roberts is an award-winning writer and speaker who previously spent more than two decades as China bureau chief and Asia news editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He now serves as a UM Mansfield Fellow and instructor in political science, and as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative. He has recently launched a China newsletter called Trade War; his book The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: the Worker, the Factory and the Future of the World was published in March 2020.

Bay Fang was until recently President of Radio Free Asia, where she oversaw award-winning journalism with the mission of bringing free press to closed societies in Asia. A former Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report who also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, she has the added perspective of having served in government under the Obama Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for press and public diplomacy. Ms. Fang earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, was a visiting fellow at Oxford University and a Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong. She trained as a French chef at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and holds a brown belt in kung fu.

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