According to Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, “The Chinese economy has hit a rough patch.” On their face, comments like these always rate a raised eyebrow: I can’t measure the economy of the street I live on, but Rampell feels comfortable commenting from New York City on the health of people in a vast country on the other side of the world. How does she know what she claims to know? This question is particularly relevant given the theme of the column in which she claimed China’s economy is lousy. Rampell suggests Chinese government officials hide the bad news.
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