Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Diary – 8 July 2005

The boring thing about dieting is talking about it

issue 09 July 2005

Banff, Alberta, Canada

I’ve been invited to address the annual meeting of the Canadian Investment Dealers Association on the subject of ‘why China isn’t going to be a global superpower’ — a theme I explored here in January, in contradiction of eminent pundits whose New Year essays had gone large on the coming ‘Chinese century’.

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