The Chinese Economy Demystified: What is Belt and Road?

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08/16/23 • 30 min

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Mia walks through the components of China's Belt and Road Intuitive, its origins in efforts to resuscitate a flailing Chinese economy, and what both liberal and radical accounts get wrong about it.

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Mia walks through the components of China's Belt and Road Intuitive, its origins in efforts to resuscitate a flailing Chinese economy, and what both liberal and radical accounts get wrong about it.

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Welcome to Dick It Happened Here, a podcast where if you're listening to this episode it's the middle of the week, you probably know you know, you know what this podcast is. You know what it's about. I'm your host, Mia Wong. Now, if you've been reading the news about China at all in the past few years, you've probably at least heard of China's Belton Road initiative, probably followed by a stream of almost panicked fearmongering about China displ