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> Several analysts said in recent weeks that China’s economic growth was already testing the lower end of Beijing’s full-year target of around 6-6.5%, which is likely to spur more policy easing. Second-quarter growth cooled to 6.2%, the weakest in nearly 30 years.

6% growth would be the envy of many countries. For comparison, the last time the US did that was 1984, after back-to-back recessions and a flood of deficit-financed defense spending:

https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543

parent aazaa 7 years ago

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