Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: What Xi’s “Common Prosperity” Policies Mean for China and the Global Economy

Monday, October 18, 2021
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Speaker
Michael A. Pettis

Professor of Finance, Peking University

Presider
Benn Steil

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

Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Michael Pettis, professor of finance at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing, and coauthor, most recently, of Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, analyzes what President Xi Jinping’s new “common prosperity” policies mean for China and the global economy.

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