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China on the Edge of Recession

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Peter St Onge
Sep 13, 2024
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China is on the edge of recession — excluding Covid, for the first time since 2008 — as new data showed all-important manufacturing contracted for the fourth month in a row with particular weakness in new orders.

In other words, what they’ve got is backlog, then it's a cliff.

Manufacturing makes up a third of China’s economy — much more than the US. While…

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