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Their economy is never in decline, never deciduous, always ever grand.
Well, they did invented the term "negative growth"
The economy has grown back to 2007 levels!
How doubleplusungood.
Negative GROWTH means they cancel out and you get nothing.
Which I guess now that I am saying it I realize it might not be them lying or even wrong.
Do you know that China is in decline? Yeah. Oh, God, they practically invented decline.
Winnie doesn’t want people to know their economic system is in no way sustainable?
Yeah well fuck them. The insistence on outright lying and deceit is a huge reason I detest the CCP.
hey they only lie because they're corrupt.. and incompetent..
Ghyna incompetent?
if you invested in anything they built and expected them to keep honest books, yessir
Oooooooohhhhhh dear. Empty honey pot 🐻
oh, bother
Bunch of amateurs. Don't they know that the proper approach is to flood the internet with articles of "the economy is doing amazing, you peasants just don't know it"?
I swear I have seen the same headline hundreds of times in my life.
The economy is just a vibe. No bad vibes allowed.
Isn't that sort of a thing?
how dare you mention cardio in my house
That’ll fix it!
What's that you say? The Chinese economy is collapsing?
If you don't tell the people they're starving, how could they possibly know?
Every day i wake up and take a shower watching a youtube video about how China is falling apart at the seams internally and it really lightens up my mood!
Good luck, Pooh bear...
Yep, that will fix the underlying weakness! /s
This and things like banning short sells are bad news on two fronts, in that they both reveal a problem and will be ineffective at solving it.
Xittie the Poo's got a turd in his hunny and he's pissy.
Xittie?
Xi Jinping, chairman of the communist party of china
I'm just confused, it's usually Xinnie (from Winnie). Wondering what the significance of the T is
Think it's a triple portmanteau of "Xi", "Winnie", and "Shitty"
but that one ~~bot~~ poster told me China is getting more powerful and the Yuan will replace the Dollar.
Any day now
China economy #1!
You are making it too complicated Winnie the Pooh. Just do what we do in the West. Hire a bunch of economists to go on the TeeVee or in dead tree media and tell everyone that all is fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reports this week from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal detail efforts by Chinese authorities to scrub the internet of negative takes on the state of its economy.
According to the NYT, The Ministry of State Security said in its official WeChat account that citizens should not believe the "false narratives" about the trajectory of China, and instead should believe in President Xi Jinping's vision.
Meanwhile, officials continue to espouse an upbeat outlook for growth this year, even as the economy grapples with a cocktail of bearish headwinds including a troubled real estate sector, crashing stocks, deflation, and youth unemployment.
In one example cited by The WSJ, an article from a Beijing-based outlet that called for more direct state intervention in addressing economic challenges was erased from the website within hours of publishing.
That, too, disappeared shortly after it was published, and on WeChat, a message appeared to those trying to access it on Li's account: "The content can't be viewed due to violation of regulations."
Experts have told Business Insider over recent weeks that the "uber-bearish" narrative on China has become entrenched, and that authorities have slim chances of engineering a rebound in the near term.
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That’s how you know everything’s going great