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HARDtalk - Stephen King

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The current financial crisis could bring about a change in the international economic order. Countries like China and India could become the dominant global economic powers. Stephen King, the Chief Economist of one of the world's biggest banks, HSBC, believes Asia's rise poses a threat to prosperity in the West. Are King's warnings just scaremongering, or should western countries sit up and pay attention? He talks to Zeinab Badawi.