Derek Scissors on a New China Playbook

Banter: Episode 469

By Robert Doar | Phoebe Keller | Derek Scissors

July 5, 2023

Derek Scissors joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss decoupling from China, President Biden’s economic policy with China, a weakening Chinese economy, upcoming Taiwanese elections, and US-India economic policy.

Derek Scissors is a senior fellow at AEI, where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently the chief economist of the China Beige Book.

Check out his recent work on a New China Playbook.

Read the recent working paper by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde mentioned in this episode.

Robert Doar

President, American Enterprise Institute

Phoebe Keller

Director of Media Relations

Derek Scissors

Senior Fellow