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David Tingxuan Zhang is an analyst at Trivium China (Opens in new window), a policy research consultancy, where he covers China’s macroeconomy – including the property sector, fiscal and local government finance, and trade and industrial policy – for government, corporate, and investor clients.
His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy (Opens in new window), Nikkei Asia (Opens in new window), the South China Morning Post (Opens in new window), and The Diplomat (Opens in new window), and he has co-authored research reports for the Asia Society Policy Institute (Opens in new window) and the Hinrich Foundation (Opens in new window). He is the co-author of Exiled in Arms: The Polish Soldiers Who Fought On (Opens in new window) (2026).
The views expressed here are his own.