Do we want China to fail? That question came up at a recent seminar I attended for Western policymakers and commentators.
The group was leafing through a report on the year ahead, when one of our number asked why one of the dangers listed for 2023 was a sharp slowdown in Chinese growth. “Isn’t that what we want to happen?” he asked.
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