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Coronavirus: Will China come out on top?

What will the pandemic mean for the rivalry between the world's two superpowers?

China was first country to suffer the effects of Coronavirus, but a few months on, it has contained the worst of the outbreak in a way the United States and most European countries have not. The Chinese economy is bracing for the first year on year economic decline for more than forty years, but western countries are projected to fare even worse. Before the pandemic, the US-China trade war had already amplified rivalries between the world’s two biggest economies, so will Covid-19 accelerate the shift in power and influence from west to east? China has been trying to increase the size of its domestic economy but the country is still reliant on exports, especially to the United States and Europe. So will that continue, or will the pandemic end hyper-globalisation and China’s place at the heart of global manufacturing? And will China turn its economy around and help the recovery of the United States and Europe or will it use the crisis to seek economic and strategic advantage? Join Dan Damon and guests as they discuss whether China will come out of the Coronavirus crisis on top.

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53 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Apr 2020 15:06GMT

Contributors

Stephen Moore - Member of President Trump’s Economic Recovery Task Force

Bonnie Glaser -ÌýSenior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project atÌýCSIS, Washington

Shaun Rein - Managing Director of the China Market Research Group based in Shanghai.

Ann LeeÌý- Author ofÌý'What the US can learn from China?'

Also featuring:

Ayur Wu - founder and CEO of Yin Gold

Roger RothÌý- ÌýWisconsin state senator

Victor Gao - Chinese government spokesman

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Photo

The US and Chinese delegations meet at the end of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires inÌý2018 by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images

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