World economy watches and waits for China’s great reboot
Wait-and-see approach is being fed by government statistics indicating that the epidemic itself is being brought under control
07 March 2020 - 11:36
In any normal year, China’s political class would be convening around now inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to rubber-stamp the year’s targets for economic growth and the policies to make it happen.
Instead, the Chinese capital is hushed. Large gatherings are called off as the nation and the rest of the world grapple with the coronavirus that’s killed thousands and stopped output in China and is now spreading on multiple continents...
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