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China’s Economic Pain Is a Test for Xi Jinping

China’s Economic Pain Is a Test for Xi Jinping
China’s Economic Pain Is a Test for Xi Jinping


“In Xi Jinping’s strategy for securing China’s rise, the Communist Party keeps a firm grip on the economy, steering it out of an old era dependent on real estate and smokestack industries to a new one driven by innovation and consumer spending,” the New York Times reports.

“But he may have to relinquish some of that control, as that strategy comes under pressure.”

“Consumers are gloomy. Private investment is sluggish. A big property firm is near collapse. Local governments face crippling debt. Youth unemployment has continued to rise. The economic setbacks are eroding Mr. Xi’s image of imperious command, and emerging as perhaps the most sustained and thorny challenge to his agenda in over a decade in power.”

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