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The year's biggest question mark: China

Investors have responded well to bits of optimistic news since late October, but no one can be certain that there is money to be made in China

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Mihir S Sharma
There is really only one economic story that the world cares about over the next few months: China. How will it reopen? Are there signs of overdue reform, or is President Xi Jinping resetting the economy in a more Marxian direction? Relatedly, is the Communist Party’s crackdown on the tech sector going to end, or is it yet to peak? Either way, is the years-long slump in the Chinese stock markets finally going to end? Will its companies resume buying commodities at a pre-pandemic pace, and from countries like Australia that had been put on a political hitlist? And will
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