Asian Critical Issues Series

The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Over Next Decade

Bill Emmott Former Editor in Chief, The Economist

Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:00 - 5:30 pm Japan Information and Culture Center 1151 21st Street, NW

The rising economic and political power of Asia is the biggest story of our times. But it is often misunderstood, either as a story of West vs. East or as a story simply of the rise of China and its challenge to America. In his new book "Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will Shape our Next Decade", Bill Emmott aims to challenge those views. The biggest story, Washington he argues, is and will be the rivalry within Asia now that, for the first time in history, the continent contains three great powers simultaneously, all of which are starting to think of Asia as a coherent whole. The other big stories will be the economic and social

changes that China, India and Japan are all destined to go through during the next decade.

Bill Emmott was the editor of The Economist from 1993 until March 31st 2006, the world's leading

weekly magazine on current affairs and business. He has now stood down from that post to become

an independent writer, speaker and consultant, based in London and Somerset.

In 1980 he joined The Economist's Brussels office, writing about EEC affairs and the Benelux

countries. In 1982 he became the paper's economics correspondent in London and the following year moved to Tokyo to cover Japan and South Korea. In mid-1986 he returned to London as the finance

and economics editor; in January 1989 he became business affairs editor, responsible for all the

paper's coverage of business, finance and science. He was appointed to the editorship of The Economist in March 1993.He co-wrote with Rupert Pennant-Rea "The Pocket Economist", part of

The Economist series of pocket guides, which was published by Blackwell's in 1983. HONG KONG HOUSTON He has written six books on Japan: "The Sun Also Sets: the limits to Japan's economic power", LOS ANGELES MANILA published by Times Books in America, Simon & Schuster in the UK and Soshisha in Japan in 1989; " MELBOURNE MUMBAI Japan's Global Reach: the influence, strategies and weaknesses of Japan's multinational corporations", NEW YORK published by Century Business in 1992 and (under the title "Japanophobia") by Times Books in SAN FRANCISCO SEOUL America in 1993; "Kanryo no Taizai" (The bureaucrats' deadly sins), published only in Japanese by SHANGHAI WASHINGTON D.C. Soshisha in 1996; and, most recently, a book version of an extended essay, published in The Economist in October 2005 and called "The Sun also Rises" to echo his 1989 book. 1575 Eye Street, NW Suite 325 Washington, DC 20005 Phone 202.833.ASIA (2742) Fax 202.833.0189 No Charge. Space is limited. Please RSVP at ( ) before noon, Monday June 16, 2008.w ww.asiasociety.org/dc