March 11, 2021· 56 min

Michael Pettis on Persistent Imbalances in Post-Pandemic China

Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,506 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(2,116 words)
M:29%
GuestMichael Pettis(5,457 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic46%
amazing, very, basically
Engagement64%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
know (86x), it's (79x), like (75x)
Parallelism88%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So, Joe, it has to be said tha..., And I don't really know if it'...
Sound Patterns47%
46 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases8%
let me tell you, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
might, probably, quite
Passive Voice9%
been convinced, been portrayed, is unmatched
Abstract Nouns21%
investment, contraction, government
Subordination6%
because, since, while
Sentence Length44%
Avg: 16.0 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers3%
according to
Impersonal Style36%
624 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
internationally, apply, early

Description

By some measures, the Chinese economy did better in 2020 than just about anywhere else. For one thing, it actually grew last year. Also because of the country's success at virus containment, it returned to normalcy faster than elsewhere. But the Chinese economy maintains persistent imbalances, and if anything, the pandemic may have accelerated them. On this episode, we spoke with Michael Pettis, a Finance Professor at Peking University and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, on where things stand now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.