PREVIEW: HEADLINE: China's Economic Crisis: A Conversation with Anne Stevenson-Yang GUEST NAME: Anne Stevenson-Yang SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride, about China's economic struggles, including deflation, factor
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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HEADLINE: China's Economic Crisis: A Conversation with Anne Stevenson-Yang
GUEST NAME: Anne Stevenson-Yang
SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride, about China's economic struggles, including deflation, factory overcapacity, and a collapsed housing market. Stevenson-Yang asserts that China'scurrent strategy of redirecting investments is insufficient to overcome these issues, indicating that the nation's inability to adopt a radically different approach means its economic problems will persist.
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| 0:22.2 | Conversation with colleague Ann Stevenson Yang, author of Wild Ride |
| 0:26.4 | about the rise and fall of the Chinese miracle. And can the Chinese get out of the deflation |
| 0:32.0 | that is set in and is eating up everything? Can the Chinese get out of the over capacity on the factory floor |
| 0:39.9 | when people no longer allow their goods into the countries where they want to sell them, |
| 0:45.6 | such as in Europe and America? Well, the Chinese recover from the collapsed housing market, |
| 0:51.4 | Anne's answer is very straightforward. The future is the present. Here's Ann |
| 0:58.1 | Stevenson Yang on China's inability to change its miracle that has led to this collapse. |
| 1:07.6 | More of this tonight. I mean, John, to overcome overcome this you would need a radically different strategy |
| 1:14.4 | and instead the strategy is well maybe we're not investing in the correct sectors so let's invest |
| 1:19.5 | over here instead it's just not going to work so yes this will continue |
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