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Deep fiscal stress in Q1

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In case you still aren’t convinced that China’s economy has gone through a deep contraction in Q1, we give you the latest fiscal data (Bloomberg):

“The income of central and local governments contracted 9.9% in the first two months of the year compared to a year ago.”
“That was the deepest fall sin...