{"podcast":{"title":"Pekingology","slug":"pekingology-580593","podcast_index_feed_id":580593,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/pekingology","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1c3c2762-d106-11ea-9755-1b672730c07c/image/uploads_2F1595963372466-j45c0t35uig-78ab17d139a3c14b70aeb7332087a294_2FPekingology_ART.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Center for Strategic and International Studies","episode_count":139,"summary":"China is one of the 21st century’s most consequential nations, and it has never been more important to understand how the country is governed. Pekingology is the podcast that unpacks Chinese politics, the inner workings of the Communist Party, and how China's domestic and foreign policy will impact the world. Pekingology is hosted by Henrietta Levin, Senior Fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. It is produced by Gina Kim.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593"},"episode":{"title":"China's Economic Transition","slug":"china-s-economic-transition","published_at":"2025-10-02T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/china-s-economic-transition","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS3611539706.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS3611539706.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Dinny McMahon, Head of China Markets Research at Trivium China, and Andrew Polk, Co-Founder and Head of Economic Research at Trivium China. Dinny and Andrew discuss their new Freeman Chair report, China’s Economic Transition: Debt, Demography, Deglobalization, and Scenarios for 2035. The conversation unpacks the structural challenges facing China’s economy, why the next decade will be decisive in whether China can escape the middle-income trap, and who really matters when it comes to economic policy-making in Beijing.","meta_description":"In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Dinny McMahon, Head of China Markets Research at Trivium China, and Andrew…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2923,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pekingology-580593/episodes/china-s-economic-transition/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/china-s-economic-transition.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}