Nick Marsh

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847 appearances 17 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 17 Jun

Nick Marsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marketplace All-in-One · Putting China's economic figures in context · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

And it actually accounted for a third of matched

of China's GDP growth. matched

So in spite of all these pressures from the outside, Chinese exports go from strength to strength and they are the main contributing factor to this 5%. matched

The population shrinking is a long-term problem that China's going to have to deal with. matched

It's not the only Asian nation that's going to have to deal with that. matched

Right now, the biggest problems really are to do with domestic consumption, so basically households not feeling like they have much money to spend. matched

That's been really exacerbated, created actually, by a property crisis in which property prices have plummeted. matched

Lots of Chinese people have their money in property invested, so people are matched

aren't spending as much as they want to. matched

So even though China's selling a lot abroad, people domestically aren't spending. matched

There's a graduate jobs crisis as well with high unemployment there. matched

So this year, expect growth to be lower than 5% and expect the government to actually start intervening with some stimulus packages and maybe even lowering interest rates as well. matched

Pleasure. matched

Thanks, William. matched

Marketplace All-in-One · In the face of a trade war, China defies the odds · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

This basically shows that even though trade with the United States did take a bit of a hit, a 20% drop or so, China more than made up for it with a massive increase in exports to the rest of the world, in particular places such as Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America as well.

Clearly, that's not great news for domestic workers and manufacturers in those places.

But it is a vindication of China's long-held belief that, yes, the American consumer market is a very big, very important market.

But it's not the only one.

And on the evidence of these figures, China has plenty of willing customers around the world.

The Customs Authority in China pointed out a rise in the export of technologies such as solar panels, electric vehicles, you know, green technology, basically artificial intelligence technology, where China is really rapidly making huge strides in that area.

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