China Is a Growing Threat to Global Competitors, Kroeber Says
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A couple stands on a sidewalk as a Chinese flag flies in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. For all the hand wringing over China's economic slowdown, the employment picture has so far remained immune to tumbling stocks, a sliding currency and waning industrial growth.
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While the world worries about China’s slowing growth, President Xi Jinping’s goal of restoring national greatness is spurring an increasingly mercantilist mentality that threatens global competitors, according to sinologist Arthur Kroeber.