Partner Post – Podcast Interview: Barry Naughton, Professor at University of California, San Diego

Three years after China’s leadership announced a new wave of market oriented reforms, Barry Naughton is disappointed with the outcome: According to the professor at the University of California, San Diego, China’s economic problems got worse under President Xi Jinping. In this MERICS podcast, Naughton describes Xi as fixated on political control, but not as an economic thinker.

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This podcast was first published by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a YCW Partner. MERICS is one of the largest international think tanks for policy-oriented research on contemporary China.