Economic Strategies in China and Germany

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This chapter analyzes the economic challenges facing China and Germany, emphasizing supply-side solutions and discrepancies in development. It explores state support and subsidies in both regions, contrasting their historical practices and discussing the implications of recent U.S. industrial policies, particularly under the Biden administration.

One of the big buzzwords over the last year or so has been "overcapacity." There's a constant line of argument that China is unfairly flooding the world with unprofitable goods and creating huge, unsustainable imbalances. Western countries, particularly the US (but also Europe), have responded by raising tariffs and engaging in domestic industrial policy in order to compete. But is the strategy sound? Are the basic premises of the problem correct? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Columbia Professor Adam Tooze, the author of several books, as well as the popular Chartbook newsletter. He argues that the overcapacity framing is misguided, and that the US may be making a mistake putting its chips down on an industrial revival. He talks us through some of the actual weaknesses of the Chinese model, as well as its global political reverberations.

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