On Friday, China’s National Statistics Bureau will, for the first time in almost two years, release quarterly economic figures without the spectre of Donald Trump looming over the proceedings.
Since April 2018, China’s quarterly GDP releases have been scrutinised for the impact of trade frictions with the US, with concerns focused on the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy if Mr Trump chose to slap punitive tariffs on imports from China.
Over this two-year period, China’s quarterly growth rates fell steadily from 6.8 per cent in early 2018 to 6 per cent in the third quarter of last year.
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