The spread of African swine fever in China has brought echoes of 2007 and 2011, when major pig disease outbreaks caused spikes in pork prices and headline inflation. But improvements in China’s disease management and pork’s lower CPI weighting these days suggest that any pick-up in inflation this time around would be more moderate.
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