Economics
The Diverging Fates of China's Provinces
As the tide goes out, not all boats are floating like before
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From the biting-cold northeast bordering Siberia to the humid southwest next to Thailand, China's growth rates are diverging almost as much as its geography.
While the world's second-largest economy slowed to a 7.4 percent expansion last year -- just squeaking into the communist government's "about 7.5 percent" target range -- regional data presents a fractured landscape more akin to Europe's than the rising-tide-floats-all-boats numbers we're used to from China.