What China’s reopening will mean for the global economy

As China moves closer to fully re-emerging from three years of
government imposed Covid isolation and as they begin to
reintegrate with the rest of the world, economic expectations are
high. Beijing’s recent pivot from its stringent zero-Covid
strategy — which had long choked businesses — is expected to
inject vitality into the world’s second-largest economy next
year.

But what will this reopening mean for the Chinese economy? How
will it affect Chinese society and China’s relations with the
rest of the world in areas such as energy consumption and price
pressures?

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is
joined by Bruegel’s Alicia García-Herrero and Steven Ying, the
founding Managing Partner of High Impact Capital Advisor, to
discuss the global implications of China’s reopening after their
Covid isolation, China’s economic outlook in 2023 and the
consequences this may have for Europe and the rest of the
world.

This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound
of Economics.

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