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Commodity prices drive abrupt rebalancing of China's trade

High commodity prices have achieved what the last Five-Year Plan and a string of summits with key trading partners could not: a rebalancing of Chinese trade. In this China Watch we consider the implications for China and the world. In the coming month’s data, another increase in consumer price inflation is likely, but GDP growth may be slowing.

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