China’s economic performance over the past three decades—its rapid growth, economic opening, and strides in poverty alleviation—marks an historic turn that may qualify as one of the great “success stories” of modern economic development. China seems poised for further rapid growth today—but questions and uncertainties cloud the longer-term horizon. Can China make the institutional changes and policy reforms that will be required to reach significantly higher general levels of productivity and income? Will continuing economic growth unleash unpredictable social or political forces within China? And what will “an economically rising China”—potentially, a China with the world’s largest GDP—mean for the security of China’s neighbors and the international community? Join us as one of the leading authorities on the Chinese economy, Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, addresses these and other issues in the fifth Wendt Distinguished Lecture at AEI.