# At the Global Alumni Conference in Shanghai, Prof. Michael Spence discusses China's slowdown

1 Faculty News June 21, 2013 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-21/china-poses-global-growth-risk-as-li-squeezes-credit-binge.html) -- "'I would be surprised if they allow this \[slowdown of growth\] to go on much longer,' Nobel laureate Michael Spence said in an interview in Shanghai yesterday."

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