Economics
The Biggest Threats to China’s Economy in 2018
- U.S rate hikes, tax cuts and trade tensions may darken outlook
- A slowdown in construction is seen as ‘the biggest fault line’
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China’s economy begins 2018 facing what its own leaders call three years of “critical battles.”
Those fights to tackle domestic debt, poverty and pollution pose a hat-trick of risks to the world’s No. 2 economy even before higher interest rates and trade war threats from the U.S. are taken into account.