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Podcast | China Shock 2.0: the trade implications of China’s new economic growth model

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With the US and China having agreed to a détente over trade, now is a good time to take a step back from the day-to-day back-and-forth of measures and countermeasure, and look at the longer term implications of China's new economic model for trade.
In this podcast, Trivium Co-founder Andrew Polk and...



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