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Will China determine the fate of the world?
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Will China determine the fate of the world?

Who's the most powerful person on the planet right now? Xi Jinping, who just got a third term as boss of China's ruling Communist Party. On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer speaks to Antoine van Agtmael, the investor who coined the term "emerging markets" and knows a thing or two about China. He believes China is now the second largest economy in the world and soon to surpass the largest, the United States.

China's innovation means it's winning, says investor
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China's innovation means it's winning, says investor

What will the world look like in the Chinese century? It'll be "much less nice," emerging markets investor Antoine van Agtmael tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World. A lot of that has to with tech innovation coming from a society in which thought is controlled.

How globalization backfired
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How globalization backfired

Antoine van Agtmael knows a thing or two about emerging markets. In fact, he coined the term for investors two decades ago. That's back when when we believed that globalization would create a global middle class. "We believed in globalization. We believed that it would make the world better," van Agtmael tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World. And it did, in many ways.

How China is overtaking the US as top world power (according to an  investor)
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How China is overtaking the US as top world power (according to an  investor)

The 21st century kicked off with a more open China, hungry for foreign investment in the heyday of globalization. Things have changed since. For emerging markets investor Antoine van Agtmael, China has become "much more closed, and [...] developed to have a real sense of itself as a world power." Meanwhile, the US has become more defensive about its global superpower status.That means we're moving from the American century to the Chinese century, he tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Chinese power
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Chinese power

Xi Jinping just got a rare third term as the head of China's ruling Communist Party. But having so much power comes with big tradeoffs and implications for China — and the rest of the world. Zero-COVID is saving Chinese lives, yet killing the Chinese economy. And the West is wary of Xi's increasingly muscular foreign policy. On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer speaks to Antoine van Agtmael, the investor who coined the term "emerging markets" and knows a thing or two about China.

China's flag and silhouetted soldiers | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer - the podcast
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Podcast: What if China’s power keeps growing?

Listen: As China's leader Xi Jinping begins an unprecedented third term in office, it's fair to ask: how much will China's future affect the whole world? On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer speaks to global markets expert and investor Antoine van Agtmael, who believes this will be the "Chinese century."