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China's Growth Imbalance And Innovation Collapse

China's growth has been very imbalanced—investment near 40% of GDP versus US 70% consumption—and shifting to consumption is hard given lack of medical care, social security and the legacy one-child policy; more fundamentally, their economy-wide rate of innovation has collapsed because they oppressed the private sector, which is the root of innovation, so they must restore agency to the private sector to grow again.

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Kenneth Rogoff

Evidence Quote

They have oppressed the private sector, particularly in the last 10 years, and for them to grow again, they need to restore some agency to the private sector.

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Kenneth RogoffConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:28:48 AM

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