In the April-June period, the Chinese economy’s real growth rate was just 6.2 percent — the slowest in 27 years. Meanwhile, a University of Chicago research team revealed that tax revenue increases between 2010 and 2016 were 1.8 percentage points lower than the official real-term growth rate. This suggests that China’s economic growth may have in fact slowed to around 4 percent.
U.S. President Donald Trump immediately responded to China’s announcement of the slowing growth rate, tweeting: “United States Tariffs are having a major effect on companies wanting to leave China for non-tariffed countries.” Trump has identified China’s macroeconomic fundamentals as a weak point, and has attacked accordingly.
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