GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: China's Great Slowdown

By Jennifer Robinson / Web Producer

Published August 15, 2023 at 3:30 PM PDT

Richard Jopson Photography. Courtesy of American Public Television

Host Ian Bremmer

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App

On this episode, GZERO WORLD goes behind the Great Wall to take a hard look at China’s post-Covid recovery and economic path forward. China’s rise over the past 40 years is undoubtedly the biggest economic success story in our lifetime, but how long can that last? After three years of brutal Zero-Covid policies and an increasingly hosile geopolitical enviroment, is China's economy in trouble?

GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: China’s Great Slowdown

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Listen: China is undoubtedly the biggest economic success story of our lifetime. Between 1978 and 2017, China averaged almost 10% year-over-year GDP growth. Decades of pro-investment policies transformed China from a closed, centrally-planned economy to an economic powerhouse that could rival the US. But in the last decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been moving the country back to its socialist roots, with major crackdowns in tech, real estate, and foreign investment. Xi’s vision is one of almost total state control, where businesses conform to the goals of the Chinese Communist Party, not the other way around. Can communist ideology mixed with capitalist ambition sustain growth into the future? Is Xi setting up China for another four decades of economic success? And what do China’s citizens make of its return to socialist roots? To discuss all that and more on the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Shaun Rein, Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, based in Shanghai.

GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER is a public affairs series built for our disorienting time, when the world order that has united much of the globe since the end of World War II is fraying. Host and renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer sits down each week with world leaders, noted experts, and newsmakers from all sides of the political spectrum for a compelling discussion of recent events in global politics.

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GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: China's Great Slowdown

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