Richard McGregor

Wilson Center

Guest

Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington and author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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How did this morning’s stock crash come about, anyway? We take a closer at what’s going on in China, and how what happened there precipitated the major market losses around the world.

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