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Is China suffering from deflation?

If China has dropped into deflation, as many now claim, one implication is that stimulus would succeed in driving a sustainable economic rebound. But evidence of deflation is weak, at best. This is another reason to believe that the economic slowdown so far will prove permanent.

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