Economic data show a slowdown in China. At least two opposing views of what’s next for the world’s largest economy have just been published: one skeptical, from David Hoffman at The Conference Board, and one cautiously optimistic, from Dan Rosen and the Asia Society Policy Institute. Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations, of which ChinaFile is a part, asked Rosen to explain the gist of his new paper. Rosen’s answers, Hoffman’s view below, and the views that follow offer plenty of perspective from which to draw one’s own conclusions about this week’s question: Are China’s economic reforms coming fast enough? —The Editors