{"id":32447,"date":"2012-05-11T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/data_signals_economic_trouble_in_china\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:45:38","slug":"data_signals_economic_trouble_in_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32447","title":{"rendered":"Data Signals Economic Trouble in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As China\u2019s leaders have been preoccupied with a political struggle leading up to a once-in-a-decade leadership change this autumn, there are increasing signs that the Chinese economy may be running into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>China announced Thursday that growth in imports had unexpectedly come to a screeching halt in April \u201d\u201d rising just 0.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, compared with expectations for an 11 percent increase. Businesses across the country appeared to lose much of their appetite for products as varied as iron ore and computer chips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/11\/business\/global\/china-trade-growth-slumps-in-april.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As China\u2019s leaders have been preoccupied with a political struggle leading up to a once-in-a-decade leadership change this autumn, there are increasing signs that the Chinese economy may be running into trouble. China announced Thursday that growth in imports had<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32447\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,582,589,149,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}