Xi Jinping Loves Soccer. Why Is China’s Team So Bad?
July 15, 2026
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as posted by the channelOn today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host Oanh Ha joins Bloomberg’s Eric Zhu and sports writer Mark Dreyer to unpack why China’s top-down model struggles to replicate its Olympic success on the football pitch, and whether an economic slowdown could actually change the game. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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