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This edition: Contemporary China: Demystifying Economic and Social Changes





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Episode Details

Original tape date: September 17, 2025. First aired: November 10, 2025.

From the perspective of the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? A panel of experts demystifies the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. They discuss China's remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty and the simultaneous growing inequality that has produced a new billionaire class; the decline in the birthrate despite the end of the One Child Policy; and how increased access to technology, with the limitations of censorship, is affecting the social landscape. Recorded: 9/17/2025.