MERICS Podcast: Assessing the MERICS China Forecast 2023, with Roderick Kefferpütz

<p>2023 will be a critical year for China. The party leadership around Xi Jinping is faced with an unprecedented health crisis and a troubled economy, and needs to balance relationships with the US and Europe while upholding its "no-limits" partnership with Russia.</p><p>To anticipate what 2023 might have in store for us, MERICS conducted the <a href="https://www.merics.org/en/short-analysis/chinas-precarious-path-forward-insights-merics-china-forecast-2023">4th MERICS China Forecast Survey</a> involving 880 China experts and members of the public. In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5OVDoXWzak">conference on January 18, 2023</a>, our experts and a line-up of high-level speakers discussed the survey's findings and their expectations.</p><p><strong>Roderick Kefferpütz</strong>, Senior Analyst at MERICS who led the compilation of this year's forecast, joins <strong>Johannes Heller-John</strong> to discuss the results.</p>