The Political Economy of China's Overcapacity Problem and its Implications for the Rest of the World

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth, and Global Political Economy presents “From Growth to Glut: The Four Ds Shaping China’s Economy and Global Geopolitics” by Zongyan Zoe Liu.

This talk will present a framework - 4 Ds (debt, demand, demographics, and de-risking/de-coupling) - for understanding China’s economic challenges and their implications for the rest of the world. It will also explain the structural forces that have led to China’s recurring overcapacity challenge and how Chinese firms are coping with these challenges.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance,emerging markets, energy and climate change policy, and East Asia-Middle East relations. Dr. Liu holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and has held research and teaching positions at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and NYU’s Stern School of Business, among other institutions. She is the author of CanBRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press).

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