Article doesn’t go into it, but thats amid the trade war.

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    11 hours ago

    Strong increase? 0.8% is “strong”?

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      6 hours ago

      In economics terms, 1 percent growth is considered very good. Yes, 0.8 isn’t 1 percent, but it’s pretty close.

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        4 hours ago

        orly?

        Strong economic growth is typically defined as a GDP growth rate of 3% or higher. 2% can also be considered healthy, depending on the economic context.

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          It depends on context. And when one of the world’s most powerful countries is sanctioning and tariffing you, that growth still speaks volumes.

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          4 hours ago

          “gdp is everything lol” We aren’t neoliberals.

          “orly?” Do you usually talk like an insufferable Redditor?

          We measure the improvement of material conditions of the working class. China serviced that far better than the west and their economic growth to maintain that ideal against a unprecedented trade war is indeed strong.

          We still doing this? Let’s compare American manufacturing industry too while we stroke off about GDP…lmfao

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            4 hours ago

            Kindly follow the entire conversation if you want to argue. My comment was written to a false claim about economic growth analysis.

            The working class in China is not seeing any improvement in their living standards right now, if that’s your argument.

            0.8% is not a “surge”. If the average Chinese worker received a pay increase (and the haven’t this year) of 0.8% nobody would claim that was a surge in their earnings.