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delivers and the Starbucks UK app, John Bachelor. The People's Republic of China in a bad patch for economic genius.

The miracle of these last decades is now in question

why COVID-19 is an explanation.

So are decisions made by the Chinese Communist Party over these decades about how to grow quickly,

how to attract foreign investment, how to lead the world in economic values come the middle of this century.

Joseph Sternberg's a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He writes political economics column, he's based in London, he was many years in Hong Kong, observing the People's

Republic of China on its miracle run that ended somewhat unexpectedly with COVID-19 and what is often called an old-fashioned

property bubble.

Joe, a very good evening to you, thank you for this.

Shijinping is presenting his case to the American people and the Europeans and other investor class.

Come back to China. Invest in China. We read routinely now that money, that foreign money, overseas

investment is fleeing China. This has two drivers, if I understand. One is the economies on a downturn and the GDP is disappointing. But two, they

have a property bubble and they have unemployment to a company. In your measure of your column, you asked the question, can China recover?

Does it have the tools to recover?

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