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World Service,17 Mar 2012,28 mins

China's economic path

In the Balance

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As China's leaders meet in Beijing, Lesley Curwen and her guests debate whether its economy is running out of steam. The guests are: from Singapore, Fraser Howie Managing Director of independent brokerage CLSA Singapore who is the co-author of Red Capitalism: from London, Dr KC Lin from the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University: and from Beijing, Qian Liu who's Deputy Director of the China Forecasting Service at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Plus, comedian Colm O'Regan looks at how to be thrifty in an era of austerity.

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