Joshua Cooper Ramo on whether the US can handle the stress test of China’s rise

Joshua Cooper Ramo is chairman and CEO of Sornay, an investment and advisory firm. Previously he was CEO of Kissinger Associates. Ramo is the author of the new book Darwin’s Lock: America, China and the Shared Future of Nations. His 2004 analysis of “the Beijing consensus” contrasted the Western and Chinese economic development models. He is the author of two New York Times best-selling books and now lives in Shanghai with his family.For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here.You moved from competitive aerobatic flying and becoming one of the youngest senior and foreign editors at Time to living in Beijing in the early 2000s, and later into high-level strategic advisory work in China and at Kissinger Associates. Looking back, what prompted that shift? How has that experience shaped your understanding of what it means to “see clearly” at a time when competing narratives increasingly define global affairs?