Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Learn how China’s economy has evolved in recent years, ranging from its manufacturing exports sector to the massive housing boom and bust and more, with one of PIIE’s top China experts, Senior Fellow Tianlei Huang. What can we learn from China’s changing consumption and investment patterns? How did the housing market become so important to China’s economy and what does its downfall mean moving forward? Huang explains all of this and more to host Anjali V. Bhatt, drawing on research from his forthcoming book, Detox: China's Fiscal Reckoning in the Shadow of the Housing Bust.

HOST

Anjali V. Bhatt
Communications Manager and Research Fellow, PIIE

GUEST

Tianlei Huang
Senior Fellow, PIIE

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