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Aspen Ideas Festival

The 2007 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival

Considering China

Broadcast: Midday, 07/18/2007, 12:00 p.m.

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China's booming economy has the world wondering whether the country will rise as the next superpower or if it will collapse under corruption. Journalist James Fallows spent a year in Shanghai, China, and he talked about what he learned from his experience at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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