The Chinese economy may be almost one-seventh smaller than officially reported, says The Economist. A new paper published by Washington's Brookings Institution foundthat industrial output and investment have been "consistently embellished".
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made buckets of money. This persuades them that the world is deeply unjust and that expropriation of the rich is the only fair answer."
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