Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: Assessing China's Growth Prospects After the Twentieth National Congress

Monday, September 12, 2022
Speaker
Michael A. Pettis

Professor of Finance, Peking University

Presider
Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

from Center for Geoeconomic Studies Roundtable Series in International Finance

Michael Pettis, professor of finance at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing and coauthor of Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, discusses China's growth prospects after the Twentieth National Congress.

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