When I first visited China in 2002, I was struck by one thing in particular: how wrong the Western view was that we were going to liberalise it.
The scale of China had a ballast that made this impossible. The factories of the Yangtze River, the tearaway development model of Shanghai, and the sheer demographic weight of Beijing were all obviously the future of the global economy.
As I travelled, the question became for me: would we change China, or would China change us?
