On October 11, 2018, drawing on his recent book (Cracking the China Conundrum – Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong), Dr. Yukon HUANG elaborated on China's economic and financial challenges. These included options for dealing with China's debt problems, sustaining rapid growth, moderating trade and investment tensions with the West and dealing with the growing impact of corruption. Many of the mainstream assumptions for addressing these issues are misguided and thus the related policy prescriptions are often flawed.