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Interpreting the Recent Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission Meeting

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Xi Jinping's Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission

Carl Safina: It's amazing the issues that get onto the top of Xi Jinping's to-do list and others that don't in ways that completely baffle me because if I were Xi Jinping, I would be spending most of my day right now thinking about China's fiscal system. He says this is existential if you're starting to look at local government financesRight? So we're seeing that just a fast moving wildfire across local governments as it relates to how they structure their relations with central authorities. But this again, where the thing that strikes me is not that they have an instituted a property tax. It's I don't see any willingness to even start thinking creatively about how they would

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