Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
So China's economic data has famously been... aspirational, shall we say. It says what the CCP wants it to say but you could scry information from it by looking at the story the CCP wanted to tell. Call it second-order economic data.
Now the CCP is straight up saying "we're not telling." Which, in in combination with saying "and we can lock you up for whatever we want, whenever we want" is a great way to eliminate all foreign investment.