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China’s growth slipping below 7% in Q1

Our China Activity Proxy (CAP) suggests that the economy has slowed markedly this quarter. We expect further policy support and are not too concerned about the outlook given how much room policymakers still have for manoeuvre. Nonetheless, the weak data mean that jitters over a possible hard landing won’t go away.

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