In this week’s episode of China Insider, Miles Yu discusses how China’s trade surplus skyrockets while domestic demand stagnates. This represents a worsening economic contradiction in which China is booming externally while internal optimism is dwindling. He then follows up on last week’s discussion of China’s military coercion of Taiwan through its National Day, before finally covering the mysterious purging of former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan a whole decade after his retirement.
China Insider is a weekly podcast project from Hudson Institute’s China Center, hosted by China Center Director and Senior Fellow Dr. Miles Yu, who provides weekly news that mainstream American outlets often miss, as well as in-depth commentary and analysis on the China challenge and the free world’s future.