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Intelligence and Insights on China's government actions, foreign policy, economy, and the capital markets.

Today, we bring you focused analyses on China’s defense budget and R&D budget, two critical areas of China’s development and security. We also bring you a key economic review for February. An economy still on the path of consumption recovery is now faced with raw material inflation, yet a mild consumer price deflation, a problem hard to solve. We bring …