<p>China is in an age of rapid technology development with AI, robots and drones - and many fear this relentless progress, and Xi Jinping’s desire to reabsorb Taiwan, will bring it into direct conflict with the United States.</p><p>But is China’s rise as inevitable and smooth as its leaders want it to be?</p><p>Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has returned from a trip to China where she was Channel 4 News' correspondent for years.</p><p>She was wowed by technological progress - but also found a younger generation exhausted and overwhelmed by political pressure, depression and burnout.</p><p>On this episode of The Fourcast, Lindsey and Matt Frei were joined by economist Dan Wang, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, who argues that China’s system has unique strengths - and dangerous weaknesses - in the race for technological supremacy.</p>
