Is China’s recovery stalling? – with Jon Anderson

06/14/23 • 27 min

As China’s re-opening rebound fades, Paul and Luke talk to Jonathan Anderson of Emerging Advisors Group and Robert Gilhooly of abrdn about the Chinese economy. The discuss the prospects for policy easing, the state of local government finances, and internationalisation of the renminbi.

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Macro Bytes - Is China’s recovery stalling? – with Jon Anderson

Transcript

Paul Diggle, 00:10

Hello and welcome to Macro Bytes, the economics and politics podcast from abrdn. My name is Paul Diggle, Chief Economist at abrdn.

Luke Bartholomew, 00:18

And I'm Luke Bartholomew, Senior Economist at abrdn.

Paul Diggle, 00:20

And today we're talking about the state of the Chinese economy. So, last episode, we covered long-run global growth and the important driver that APAC and China represent for the long-term, global econom