Should foreign companies still do business in China?

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Yuyun Zhan talks to
Bruegel Senior fellow Alicia García-Herrero and President of the
European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Jens Eskelund, about
foreign companies doing business and investing in China. They
discuss the difficulties of navigating current geopolitical
tensions as well as China’s domestic environment. Jens presented
the latest results from the European Business in China Business
Confidence Survey 2024, which shows that despite the re-opening
of China’s borders in early 2023, business confidence in the
market continued on a downward trend. They discuss what measures
the Chinese government has pursued to appeal to investors,
debating whether they are persuasive enough.

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