Henrietta Levin
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first heard May 2026
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China is one of the 21st century's most consequential nations.
It has never been more important to understand how the country is governed and what its leaders and its people actually want and believe.
Welcome to Pekingology, the podcast that unpacks China's evolving political system and the trajectory of China's domestic and foreign policy.
I'm your host, Henrietta Levin, senior fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS.
This is Pekingology.
China's economy is complicated.
It is generating incredible world-leading advances in green technology, industrial robotics, artificial intelligence.
It is also an increasingly difficult place for everyday people to make a living and achieve even modest upward mobility.
And these seemingly contradictory trends are quite deeply linked to each other.
So to unpack China's dual track economy, I am really pleased to be joined today by Alicia Garcia Herrero, a leading expert on Chinese and Asian economics.
Alicia recently published a fantastic article in China Leadership Monitor titled China's Dual Economy When Strategic Ambition Hollows Out the Foundation.
Alicia, thank you so much for coming on the show.
A great pleasure.
So how did you first get interested in China?
And so diving into the dual economy, I'm going to quote at slight length part of your piece because I think you draw out the distinctions here really elegantly.
And you say that the dual economy is on one side brilliant and purposeful, pushing China to the frontier of electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, solar technology and advanced semiconductors.
The other side, stagnant, squeezed and increasingly hollowed out.
On one side stand China's global corporate champions who keep on winning market share across the world thanks to China's industrial upgrading.
On the other side sits the Chinese households whose disposable income is no longer growing and whose wealth has been devastated by the collapse of the property market.
So how has China's economy come to be characterized by such dissonance?
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