China’s ‘Two Sessions’ paper over cracks in a troubled economy
George Magnus explores the economic and policy backdrop to the ‘Two Sessions’ and how the main economic challenges facing China are being addressed, or not.
George Magnus is a research associate at the China Centre at the University of Oxford and at SOAS in London. He is also author of ‘Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy’. He served as the Chief Economist and later Senior Economic Adviser at UBS during a period spanning over 20 years, having previously worked in an economics capacity at SG Warburg, Bank of America, and Lloyds Bank.