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The Chilly Truth Behind China’s 5% Growth
China's set to release a raft of key data this week, including the full-year GDP tally for 2024.
In all likelihood, officials in Beijing will claim some measure of success, where that means the NBS will suggest the world's second-largest economy met the Party's growth target.
If you distrust the data, no one (other than Xi, maybe) will blame you. And to call the numbers into question doesn't necessarily entail resorting to ad hominem, although ad hominem works in this context, totalitarian dic
A Chinese economist was disappeared after suggesting 2024 real gdp growth was in the 2.5% range, or half official stats. Liars figure and figures lie.