"China Needs to Grow Rich Before it Grows Old" - Robin Niblett October 27, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/23/What_In_The_World_Is_Going_On

Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, predicts a rapid demographic change in the world population by 2050. Although he sees many countries with aging populations, he is most alarmed about the graying of China. "China is the first country that needs to grow rich before it grows old," he says.

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With a new administration in the US government, and a global financial crisis, where do we stand now? Robin Niblett is director of the UK's prestigious Chatham House, arguably the world's foremost international affairs think tank.

Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) is concerned with global security, prosperity, and is a source of independent analysis and ideas for decision makers in government and the private sector. Professor Stephen King and The Age's Daniel Flitton respond to Robin Niblett's speech and The Hon Michael MacKellar chair's the discussion. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House, President of The Center for Strategic and International Studies, former director of the CSIS Atlantic Partnership Project, and co-editor of Rethinking European Order: West European Responses, 1989-97.