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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 7055770, member: 73489&quot;]I have worked as an economist so I can tell you that even though China has worked an economic miracle -- taking hundreds of millions out of poverty and elevating them to lower middle-class status -- <b>the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lies all the time.&nbsp; They still haven&#039;t &#039;fessed up about C-19 and its origins.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Witness the cities comprised of empty apartments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, lower rungs of the CCP have an incentive to lie about employment and production in smaller cities and rural areas.&nbsp; Party promotions and $$$ (yuan) are dependent on meeting production goals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some stats can&#039;t be manipulated -- electricity usage, for example -- and the amount of electricity and oil/gas usage does NOT back up the last few years of economic data.&nbsp; It&#039;s consistent with much lower levels of GDP growth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if their 8% growth is closer to 6% or 4%, but it&#039;s almost certainly overstated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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