Money Talks: Caged tiger
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As China celebrates the lunar new year and the winter Olympics open in Beijing, host Mike Bird and Simon Cox, our China economics editor, size up the looming threats to economic growth. Against the mounting costs of a zero-tolerance approach to the pandemic and a sharp slowdown in the property sector, can Xi Jinping deliver on his promise of “common prosperity” for all?
With Don Weinland, The Economist’s China business and finance editor; Angela Zhang, director of the Centre for Chinese Law at Hong Kong University and author of “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism”; and Zhu Ning, a professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance and author of “China’s Guaranteed Bubble”.
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| 1:04.1 | As it marks the lunar new year and the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China |
| 1:13.5 | should have plenty of reasons to celebrate. |
| 1:16.5 | But far from roaring its way into the year of the Tiger, the Chinese economy is slowing, |
| 1:21.2 | and multiple threats loom over the prosperity of 2022. |
| 1:33.5 | You're listening to Money Talks from the economist, our weekly podcast on the markets, |
| 1:38.3 | the economy and the world of business. |
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