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On the latest episode of FP Live, I spoke with two experts on the economics behind U.S.-China relations: Scott Kennedy, a senior advisor and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist at Foreign Policy.
Subscribers can watch the full discussion on the video box atop this page, or follow the FP Live podcast. What follows below is a condensed and lightly edited transcript. The relationship between the world's two biggest economies is in its most serious crisis in nearly five decades.
Every time the United States has imposed higher tariffs on China, Beijing has retaliated in kind. What would it take for the escalation to stop? Which economy can suffer more pain? The relationship between the world's two biggest economies is in its most serious crisis in nearly five decades. Every time the United States has imposed higher tariffs on China, Beijing has retaliated in kind.
What would it take for the escalation to stop? Which economy can suffer more pain? On the latest episode of FP Live, I spoke with two experts on the economics behind U.S.-China relations: Scott Kennedy, a senior advisor and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist at Foreign Policy.
Subscribers can watch the full discussion on the video box atop this page, or follow the FP Live podcast. What follows below is a condensed and lightly edited transcript. Ravi Agrawal: Scott, you recently returned from China.
How has Beijing been preparing for a trade war? How far are they willing to go? Scott Kennedy: Well, in my travels to China post-pandemic, there's been a malaise. The economy has grown very slowly; it never really bounced back. People have been questioning whether.
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