China has experienced rapid political and economic growth, especially in the past decade, and increasing attention is paid to the question of China’s "rise," a topic frequently in the media during President Barack Obama's November 2010 visit to Asia. Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg/Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, examined China's growing global significance in a talk at Claremont McKenna College on October 25, 2010. He addressed implications for the United States and spoke to commonly expressed perceptions and concerns about China's growth. Focusing on facts, Fingar looked retrospectively at events that have occurred during China's period of rapid growth and used them as a basis for an examination of the future.