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Periscope.
Byline: Sarah Schafer, William Dobson, George Wehrfritz and Hideko Takayama, Frank Brown, Jonathan Adams, Michael Isikoff, Lorraine Ali, Karen Springen, Tara Pepper, Nicki Gostin
CHINA
It's All Part of the Plan
China's bureaucrats are at their best mobilizing against a threat, whether it's a virus, an "evil" cult or, now, an overheating economy. The country's economy grew at 9.1 percent last year and for the first time in recent history, China experienced mild inflation. Fears have grown of a boom that will end in a bust. So Beijing is taking dramatic steps to cool things down. Authorities have made it harder for start-ups to squeeze into ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Periscope.