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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Xi's Blunders and China's Growing Economic Risks

China’s Great Leap Backward
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-undoing-crucial-economic-reforms-by-jeffrey-frankel-2023-10
China’s ongoing economic slowdown is partly the result of its failure to implement crucial structural reforms that would have enabled it to escape the middle-income trap. While previous Chinese leaders saw economic prosperity as the key to maintaining popular support, Xi Jinping has prioritized political control over growth. 

China’s Age of Malaise
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/chinas-age-of-malaise
Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?
 
Politics poses the biggest threat to economic growth in China
https://www.ft.com/content/5c88b523-9312-4057-948b-0f0ac625725d 

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