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Sep 2023
28 m

The China Crisis: How Bad is it?

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal
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Faced with a real estate crisis, record high youth unemployment, and massive debts at the local government level, how much economic trouble is the People's Republic of China in? On this episode of the Free Expression Podcast, economist and China expert George Magnus tells Wall Street Journal editor at large Gerry Baker about whether China under Xi Jinping’s ... Show More
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