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Pain of China’s slowdown is spread unevenly

Debates over whether China is facing a “hard landing” generally miss the point that an economic slowdown can affect different groups in different ways. Right now, Chinese policymakers seem not too concerned that the economy is slowing as the labour market remains strong. But commodity producers, for example, have seen a sharp fall in China’s demand that, for them, should be far more worrying.

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