Daily Memo: China’s Weak Growth

New figures show the country missed its economic growth target last year.

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Bad news for Beijing. China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday released economic figures for 2022. The country’s gross domestic product grew by 3 percent year over year, missing Beijing’s target of 5.5 percent growth. Meanwhile, according to figures also released on Tuesday by the statistics agency, the country’s population fell for the first time […]

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