# Long Reads: China’s Next Decade w/ Eli Friedman

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Published: 2026-07-31T15:55:00+00:00
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## Resource

Over the last couple of years, media coverage of China has focused on the trade war launched by the Trump administration. While Trump and his tariffs have been grabbing the headlines, there have been some major developments in China’s domestic political economy. So far this year, the Chinese authorities have announced plans to reform the hukou system that controls the movement of workers around the country. They’ve also published their latest five-year plan setting out development goals for the rest of the decade. Eli Friedman joins Long Reads to talk about what’s been happening in China. Eli is a professor of global labor at Cornell University and the coauthor of China in Global Capitalism . Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies with music by Knxwledge.

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