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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Gordon Chang. I'm Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're exploring the non-transparent Chinese economy in 2025. Yes, the tariffs are getting all the attention, but the fundamentals of the Chinese economy is

everything for the future, and therefore we welcome Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital

Research, longtime informant for us about China's economy, author of most recently China's

technology war, why Beijing took down its tech giants,

a book I now have and look forward to talking to Andy about in near future because it needs to be updated.

What he said in 22 is even more so in 25.

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