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its way back after strict covid lockdowns. cnn s beijing bureau chief, stephen young joins me now with more good to see you, stephen, so china s gdp up 4.5% what more are you learning about this and of course what it signals. yeah. rosemary is with most official economic data from beijing. you take it, taking them with the green of salt, but even taking them a face value. it s worth noting. as you alluded to what we re comparing these numbers against. that is the first quarter of 2022, especially the month of march. that, of course, was when shanghai, the financial hub and biggest city was headed into a two month brutal lockdown, so it was against that kind of abysmal economic picture of 2022 that we are seeing this very a strong rebound that officials are so proud of. and the other thing to note, of course, is this rebound is not evenly distributed across different sectors across different segments of the population officials obviously highlighting, for example, a strong rebound in co
of its guided missile destroyers was on a mission consistent with international law when it entered the area near where it calls mischief, reef and china cause maybe reef. it comes on the final day of drills by the chinese military in the waters and skies around taiwan. those exercises beginning after taiwan s president returned from a trip to visit officials in the us and central america. cnn s beijing bureau chief steven jiang joins me now with the latest stephen, obviously, we are viewing these military exercises and missions through the prism of this narrative of increased tensions between china and the us how far do they mark a ratcheting up or an escalation of what s normal? you know what s interesting here is even though the scale and intensity of china s latest war games are not reaching the level of what we saw last year when then u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan remember after that trip, the chinese launched its biggest ministry draws around taiwan in decades,
says one of its guided missile destroyers was on a mission consistent with international law when it entered the area near what it calls mischief reef and china caused major reef. it comes on the final day of drills by the chinese military and the waters and skies around taiwan. those exercises beginning after taiwan s president returned from a trip. to visit officials in the us and central america, cnn s beijing bureau chief steven jiang joins me now with the latest good to see you, stephen. so what more are you learning about china s military drills around taiwan and what s being said about any concerns of a miscalculation? rosemary. that is a great and very timely question because of what you just mentioned in terms of the chinese reaction to the u. s naval warships latest freedom of navigation operation in the south china sea because even though the scale and intensity