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China’s Last Economic Gasp?

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China’s just-announced 6.3 percent GDP growth in the second quarter comes with a series of drawbacks. Here’s a primer on the issues with the new numbers from Beijing’s propaganda arm.

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China’s sluggish economic recovery

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This was the year that the Chinese economy was meant to roar back to life. Its reopening, after draconian Covid-19 restrictions, was touted by financial markets as 2023’s biggest economic story. In some sense it…

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