China must tend to its ailing economy
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Amidst lacklustre spending, dwindling fiscal revenues and deflationary pressure, China’s economic troubles are mounting. The state’s farsightedness may be to blame.
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