As many Chinese politicians say, contrary to Russians who, at the end of 1980s, “nosedived into the pool forgetting to fill it with water first,” Chinese learn to swim slowly, without “diving into deep water” outright”, says prof. Maciej Walkowski, an expert on international economic relations from Department of International Economy at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, interviewed by Rafał Wiśniewski from the R/evolutions editorial team about the future of the Chinese economy.