Introduction

1s & 2s FPs Economics Podcast. Every week we take some data and use it to try to explain the world. This week our data point is 0.8% which is the increase in the GDP of China in the second quarter of this year compared to the first quarter. It all makes for a portrait of a country that seems not to have recovered from the pandemic in the way that many people expected. So yeah we thought we'd dig into this slowdown in China and what exactly it amounts to.