China strategist. Author of bi-weekly China Macro Watch. Mission: bridge the information gap between the East and the West.
Contact: shanghaimacro@gmail.com
China August economic data:
Retail sales (a nominal figure): 0.4% yoy
YTD fixed asset investment (a real figure): -7.2%.
Our domestic demand tracker has fallen to levels even below that during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown.
“What is unsustainable will not be sustained.”