# In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Prof. Ian Bremmer discusses China's growth potential

1 Faculty News April 13, 2014 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2014/04/10/alibaba-weibo-and-chinas-potential-for-growth/) -- "Over the long term, China’s road to economic reform will be bumpy and politically unpredictable. Its state capitalist model will remain the dominant economic force for the foreseeable future. A more acute economic slowdown could undermine Xi’s reform agenda. Criticism from political elites, their influence waning, will grow louder — and perhaps too ear-splitting for reforms to be sustainable."

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