Lawrence Kuhn — March 5, 2018 HOST: You were there at the Great Hall of the People. What was your main takeaway from what some have described as Li Keqiang’s impossible challenge: how to deleverage, how to take away stimulus, and still keep 6.5% growth? RLK: I don’t take the 6.5% growth as the primary o

dress rehearsals for the far more consequential difficulties that will face the incoming leadership of president-"elect" Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Over the next decade, China will have to grapple with a number of structural dilemmas, and the potential solutions go well beyond the current refo

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