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According to China's official statistics, the Chinese economy shrank by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2022: China's growth is usually reported in year/year numbers, but quarter/quarter is how the U.S. and most countries do their reporting. So by the kind of measurement Americans are used to hearing about, China's economy officially contracted at an annualized rate of over -3% in the second quarter of 2022.

Noah Smith
4w ago

China's AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.

1mo ago

It thus went from the bottom to the top income classification within less than half-a-century. Moreover, it did so while bringing along more than 1 billion people (the average population of China during this forty-five years' journey).

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