Apparently, social stability imperatives aren’t what they used to be in China.
The first thing they teach you in China-watcher school is that social stability is everything. That was certainly the case during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, the mild global recession of the early 2000s, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09, and the Covid-related collapse of 2020. And it is very much the case today. In each of those earlier instances, Chinese policymakers moved aggressively to temper mounting unemployment to preserve social stability. That reaction is al
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