China’s statistics office is adept at massaging GDP data. But with many of the indicators that feed into GDP showing year-on-year contractions in April and May, even it won’t be able to deliver published growth at the rate the government wants this year. Meanwhile, the latest port throughput data suggest that Shanghai’s lockdown had a much smaller impact on shipping than commonly supposed.
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