The CCP’s annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) took place just over a week ago, concluding just before a press conference at which senior International Monetary Fund officials answered questions about their soon-to-be-published annual Article IV report on the state of China’s economy. Both events shed light on the 2026 outlook. The topics were identical, then — the views not so much.
The CEWC mostly echoed the content of the Fourth Plenum in October and the December Politburo
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