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Weak sauce

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Beijing still plans to stimulate demand by expanding supply.

(And we still think that's a bad approach.)

That’s based on the state planner's (NDRC) twenty-point plan for reviving consumption, published on Monday.
Spoiler: The plan is weak sauce.
The notice calls for boosting consumption in the fol...