CHINA is certainly capturing the attention – and there will be more said over the coming months as the country prepares for the Olympic Games. But that s another story. Here journalist Will Hutton, the author of The State We re In, looks at the growth of

CHINA is certainly capturing the attention - and there will be more said over the coming months as the country prepares for the Olympic Games.

But that's another story.

Here journalist Will Hutton, the author of The State We're In, looks at the growth of the country's economy and the role it will be playing in the future.

China has emerged as a key in global events and the transition of the country from an isolated backwater of not too many years ago to an important player on the world stage is explored in The Writing on the Wall.

Hutton looks to the future and comments, too, on a country that has seen a breathtaking change to its ideological ways and political tradition.