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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: going to talk about she Jing Ping's capitalist SmackDown Sparks

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Speaker 1: one trillion Dollar Reckoning. That's the title of the Big

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Speaker 1: Take today and Tom Orlick, one of the authors, joins

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Speaker 1: us to discuss UM. And it's been such an interesting

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Speaker 1: process to watch. Tom. So many people have different ideas

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Speaker 1: of what's going on, from the ant U I p

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Speaker 1: O to UM, what happened with d D and now

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Speaker 1: with the ed tech UM move. The question is is

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Speaker 1: it about you know, Uh Jing Ping's grip on power

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Speaker 1: or is this really about UM data security? Or could

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Speaker 1: it be about supporting the middle class? What do you see?

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Speaker 1: I think it's all of the above. UM Si Jinping

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Speaker 1: in twenty two will be looking for the NOD to

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Speaker 1: take a third term as president, the term as chair

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Speaker 1: of the Communist Party so building public support ahead of

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Speaker 1: that is crucial. At the same time, I think this

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Speaker 1: is a Chinese government which is willing to wield the

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Speaker 1: kind of the big stick of authoritarian power in order

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Speaker 1: to try and deliver on some social priorities. So that

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Speaker 1: includes national security, making sure that sensitive data isn't leaking

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Speaker 1: over oversure. It also means taking a big swing at

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Speaker 1: the market targeting private sector companies. How does that then

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Speaker 1: translate into the Chinese economy? So I think what we're

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Speaker 1: seeing is a Chinese government which is willing to take

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Speaker 1: short term blow to growth, in order to deliver on

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Speaker 1: what they see as more important long term development priorities.

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Speaker 1: They'll take a swing at some of the biggest tech

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Speaker 1: be good for China's longer term growth, not going to

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Speaker 1: be good for China's squeezed middle class. How do we

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Speaker 1: know when this is over? I mean, or what's the

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Speaker 1: next shooter drop? That's a really good question. So we've

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Speaker 1: already had China's regulators come out swinging against the big

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Speaker 1: coming out swinging against property. One of the big frustrations

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Speaker 1: one possibility could be the private medical industry. China's households

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Speaker 1: think it's quite likely that China's policymakers, China's regulators will

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Speaker 1: make sure they're delivering quality care. How does the US

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Speaker 1: Tom Warlock joining us there with his story Jumping's capitalist

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Speaker 1: SmackDown sparks a trillion dollar reckoning. That is our big

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg terminal if you like, Just type NI big

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Speaker 1: he is the chief investment officer, and David. We're just

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Speaker 1: We're seeing targets raised left and right. Earnings are are

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Speaker 1: Earnings for companies have been very strong. That level of

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Speaker 1: so we think a lot of those good things are

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Speaker 1: have low interest rates like this because it makes stocks

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Speaker 1: It was pretty insane. Marcus, thanks so much for joining us.

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