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How China Can Hurt the U.S. Economy

Adam Tooze answers listener questions on China.

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A clerk wearing dark glasses, a white shirt, and dark tie counts stacks of Chinese yuan and U.S. dollars at a bank in Shanghai.
A clerk counts stacks of Chinese yuan and U.S. dollars at a bank in Shanghai on July 22, 2005. China Photos/Getty Images

To mark the two-year anniversary of Ones and Tooze, the podcast we co-host, we dedicated this week’s episode to listener questions—specifically, questions devoted to China. What follows is an excerpt, edited for length and clarity. For the full conversation, look for Ones and Tooze wherever you get your podcasts.

Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @CameronAbadi

Adam Tooze is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a history professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Chartbook, a newsletter on economics, geopolitics, and history. Twitter: @adam_tooze

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