There is mounting evidence that supply constraints are feeding price pressures across manufacturing in China. Producer price inflation is about to jump to multi-year highs. Meanwhile, the statistics bureau responded yesterday to a report that China’s population contracted last year by saying that “according to our understanding” it didn’t. That hasn’t quashed speculation that the census has revealed that demographic headwinds are building earlier than previously thought.
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