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3 Additional Economic Challenges Facing China

China’s economy faces various challenges that are not often reported by Western media.
3 Additional Economic Challenges Facing China
Motorists ride past a screen showing China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on April 9, 2025. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Apart from the Trump administration’s tariffs—existing and threatened—China faces several other serious domestic economic challenges. A previous column in this space itemized several of them. You can read it here. That list, however, was far from complete. Here are three more such challenges, none insignificant.
Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
Author
Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."