China’s Weakness is our Greatest Concern | Niall Ferguson | #CLIP

In this short, Niall Ferguson reflects on why China’s diminishing supremacy as a world power is actually Australia’s greatest concern. In response to an ageing population and vacant real estate the Chinese Communist Party has turned to mainland nationalism as an antidote to its dwindling international authority, which means it is more likely to make bold foreign policy decisions as the ’Wounded Bear’ of global politics. You can find the full conversation here: Niall Ferguson, MA, ., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Centre for European Studies, Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.