In a talk moderated by Carnegie Senior Associate Albert Keidel, Minxin Pei, director of the Carnegie China Program and Wing Thye Woo, senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, discussed the implications of the recent National Party Congress.

Many analysts predict that China’s economy, even if its growth trajectory gradually slows, will be larger than the U.S. economy before the middle of the 21st century. But without domestic reform, will China's economy unravel before overtaking the U.S.?