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China Shows Strength, but Questions Remain

China Shows Strength, but Questions Remain
Young people attend a job fair in Beijing on Aug. 26, 2022. China's slowing economy has left millions of young people fiercely competing for an ever-slimming raft of jobs and facing an increasingly uncertain future. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Beijing reported that the country’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew in this year’s first quarter by 4.5 percent over the first quarter of 2022. That is a vast improvement over the 2.9 percent growth reported for the fourth quarter of last year. Because Beijing rescinded its draconian zero-COVID policy last January, most forecasters expected an improvement, but this recent figure exceeded the consensus 4.0 percent consensus expectation.
Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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