China: Projections for 2025

About this episode

This episode discusses China's economic outlook for 2025, focusing on growth scenarios, challenges, and investment implications.

Amid global complexities, China's economic outlook presents both challenges and opportunities that are crucial to investment considerations. In this episode of All the Credit ® , we weigh possible growth scenarios for China, the impacts of tariffs, private sector confidence, and property sector challenges. We assess the nation's fiscal strategies, rising social unrest, and geopolitical tensions with the U.S. and Taiwan. PGIM Fixed Income's Tom Porcelli , Chief U.S. Economist, hosts Shikeb Farooqui, PhD , Lead Asia Economist. Recorded on January 9, 2025.

People in this episode

Host: Tom Porcelli

Guest: Shikeb Farooqui

Topics covered

• China's economic outlook
• investment considerations
• geopolitical tensions
• fiscal strategies
• private sector confidence

Keywords

• China
• economic outlook
• investment
• geopolitical tensions
• fiscal strategies
• private sector confidence
• tariffs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PGIM

Places: China, U.S., Taiwan

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