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But enforced online optimism is no remedy for economic gloom
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The Communist Party is in a quandary

So long as its leaders are not lying

Foreign concerns about a deluge of Chinese goods fall on deaf ears in Beijing

Gloomy expectations are starting to matter more than the data

Communist Party officials think so

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist