With China, the received wisdom belongs to the pessimists. Figures this week revealed that growth has slowed sharply and deflation set in, as the economy is weighed down by a property slump and factory production is at its weakest since the dark days of the global financial crisis. In the first three months of 2015, gdp grew at "only" 7% year-on-year. Growth for 2015 will probably be the weakest in 25 years. Fears are rising that, after three soaring decades, China is about to crash. That would be a disaster. China is the world's second-largest economy and Asia's pre-eminent rising power. Fortunately, the pessimists are missing something. China is not only more economically robust than they allow, it is also putting itself through a quiet-and welcome-financial revolution.
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