# Summer Davos: What does China Want? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515/summer-davos-what-does-china-want Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515/summer-davos-what-does-china-want.md Podcast: [Deep Dish on Global Affairs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515) Published: 2026-06-18T00:10:00+00:00 Episode link: https://deepdishonglobalaffairs.libsyn.com/summer-davos-what-does-china-want Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/deepdishonglobalaffairs/049_-_DD_-_Davos.mp4?dest-id=580050 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515/episodes/summer-davos-what-does-china-want Duration seconds: 1601 ## Resource China's annual Summer Davos meeting comes at a complicated moment: consumer demand is weak, manufacturing is booming, and tensions with the United States and Europe are rising. Simon Rabinovitch, Beijing bureau chief at The Economist, discusses how China sees the global economy, why businesses continue to engage with China, and what Beijing ultimately wants . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515/episodes/summer-davos-what-does-china-want/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-dish-on-global-affairs-175515/summer-davos-what-does-china-want.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.