Philippe Le Corre has followed the rise of China and its relations with Europe and U.S. throughout a career that has spanned government, media, academia and business, on both sides of the Atlantic and in Asia. A former foreign correspondent, he was also at one time an adviser to the French government. These days he is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and research fellow at Harvard University. In this edited transcript of a recent conversation, we