PREVIEW HEADLINE: Questioning the Validity of China's Increased GDP Expectations GUEST NAME: Fraser Howie SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Fraser Howie about the World Bank/IMF raising GDP expectations for China. Howie suggests these organizations relu
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchez, speaking with colleague Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism, |
| 0:07.2 | about the increase by the World Bank IMF of the GDP expectation of China this year from |
| 0:13.8 | four-something to four-something higher. What meaning? Fraser deals with the meeting right away. Very short-handedly. |
| 0:24.5 | Everybody does the same thing. It matters what the inputs are. Here Fraser explains, |
| 0:30.7 | and what good is the result. China's growths four something to four something. More of this tonight. |
| 0:39.7 | To some extent, they, they, I think, you know, they're never going to come out publicly and really |
| 0:44.2 | be particularly negative about China. But remember, these people, they have a load of, they have |
| 0:48.3 | models, they have inputs, they put the inputs into the model, they turn the handle and outspit |
| 0:52.0 | some numbers and that's what their report produces. That's what they do. They do it for all the other countries. They're doing it for |
| 0:57.7 | China as well. The quap, but it's the classic rubbish in, rubbish out. |
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