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Flash talk | China’s increasingly muddled macro-policy outlook

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As headwinds to China's macroeconomic outlook continue to mount, Xi Jinping and co are not backing away from their (overly) ambitious 5.5% GDP growth target for 2022.

Indeed, at the most recent Politburo meeting in April, senior policymakers underlined their expectation that lower-level officia...