David Osman of the IRF Podcast team is joined by William Hess, the co-CEO and co-Head of Research at PRC Macro, which is based in Beijing and New York.

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In this podcast William Hess explains the pros and cons of Xi Jinping’s Common Prosperity Agenda and the severe problems in China’s highly-leveraged property sector. William also discusses China’s demographic trends, which will slow the rate of economic growth significantly in the years ahead. He highlights the main implications for Chinese monetary and fiscal policymakers and for investors in China’s bond and equity markets. William also assesses the chances of China introducing a nationwide property tax in the next few years.

In addition, he discusses China’s more aggressive approach towards reunification with Taiwan and other matters relating to the evolving Sino-US relationship, as well as the outlook for the Chinese currency.