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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, foreign policies editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show.

China's economic rise over the last four decades has been unprecedented.

In many ways, it shaped the world we're in today.

And just as China's rise had immense impacts in that country and around the world,

its slowdown will also have important implications. But how much will China's growth actually slow?

Data is always so murky with China. The World Bank says it expects China's GDP to expand by just 4.4% in 2024,

missing the government's official target of 5%. And behind all of that lies a spate of troubling

economic indicators. Property sales have declined. Debt has soared. Exports are slipping. Foreign direct investment is declining.

A fifth of the country's youth are unemployed. And in response, Beijing is limiting its

release of economic data. For those of you joining us for the first time, we often take

subscriber questions on these tapings. If you're not

a subscriber, but you've been waiting for the right moment, we have a big 50% discount going. Go to

foreign policy.com, use the code FP Live when you check out. So, as I said, China's a difficult

country to decipher, but I was joined by three terrific China experts who know the country and its economics well.

Linglingway is the Wall Street Journal's chief China correspondent. She lives in New York now, but she spent a lot of time in Beijing.

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