{"id":13685,"date":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.asiasociety.org\/podcasts\/asiasocietypodcast\/160706_china_economy_podcast.mp3"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","slug":"chinas-economy-headed-for-a-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2016\/07\/07\/chinas-economy-headed-for-a-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Economy\u2014Headed for a Crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"After embracing market reforms in 1979, the world's largest communist country blindsided the world with three decades of consistent double-digit GDP growth. It was dubbed the \"China Miracle.\" But now, the country's growth is rapidly slowing and a raft of grave concerns about demographics, the middle-income trap, capital flight, and debt are emerging in its economy. So does this mean economic catastrophe, or can it be managed? In this episode we hear from a range of economists, investors, and journalists to unpack what\u2019s going on in China\u2019s economy, and what a stumble might mean for the world.<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?a=dhxygeIS4Js:WMCCOh_AMyo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?a=dhxygeIS4Js:WMCCOh_AMyo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/asiasociety\/eqec\/~4\/dhxygeIS4Js\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~r\/asiasociety\/eqec\/~3\/dhxygeIS4Js\/160706_china_economy_podcast.mp3\">Asia In-Depth<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After embracing market reforms in 1979, the world&#8217;s largest communist country blindsided the world with three decades of consistent double-digit GDP growth. It was dubbed the &#8220;China Miracle.&#8221; But now, the country&#8217;s growth is rapidly slowing and a raft &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383687,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions\/383687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}