01/12/2023

A year after covid lockdowns were lifted is China's economy back to full health? The world's second biggest economy has a debt-laden property sector, soaring youth unemployment and waning consumer confidence. The challenges for President Xi Jinping and his government to get to grips with also include US China trade tensions and the global problem of inflation. Leading China economist Keyu Jin, of the London School of Economics, explains how a radically different younger generations are reshaping the world's second biggest economy. Meanwhile Cornell University professor of global trade Eswar Prasad, who is also a former head of the IMS's China Division maps out what it means for the rest of the world.

Aaron Heslehurst also hears from the chair of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitchell Baker. The boss of the not-for-profit which runs Firefox lays out why its worth taking on the deep-pocketed likes of Google and Apple in the battle to be your internet browser of choice.