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?China is undoubtedly the biggest economic success story of our lifetime.
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.