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Everybody chill – there's no threat of deflation in China.
That's according to Ruan Jianhong, director of the central bank's (PBoC) statistics department, who spoke at a PBoC press conference on Thursday.
Some context: China has experienced low consumer price inflation (CPI) and an outright drop in ...