Government borrowing is ramping up as China begins to implement a stimulus package whose fiscal component is as large as that in 2009. There are other similarities too: despite pledges to direct more support to them, private firms are being squeezed out. The post-virus economic recovery is shaping up to be almost as state-led as that after the Global Financial Crisis.
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