Alexandra Harney, Former China Correspondent, Financial Times
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The China Price: The True Cost of the Chinese Competitive Advantage
Alexandra Harney , Former China Correspondent, Financial Times
Harney, an acclaimed journalist and former correspondent for the Financial Times, will discuss her landmark expose of how China’s factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its future and the environment, creating a gold-rush atmosphere in the process, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich. Rampant corruption and under... 
