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In the lead-up to U.S. President Trump’s meeting later this week with China’s Xi Jinping, Orville Schell, ChinaFile’s publisher, wrote an essay in The Wall Street Journal on the history of China’s episodic embrace of democratic principles and why in the long run he feels they are likely to persist despite an authoritarian retrenchment under Xi’s leadership. Anders Corr, a
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[ANALYSIS] PH economy ‘on the mend’? It’s actually stalling May 14, 2021 1:54 PM PHT We should be bouncing back by now. But we’re not. On May 11, the government announced that our economy’s output, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), shrank by 4.2% from the first quarter of 2020 to 2021. This is disheartening for a number of reasons. First, this tells us that we’re in the 5 th straight quarter of economic decline, the longest recession we’ve had since Martial Law (during which we endured 9 consecutive quarters of decline). Second, analysts didn’t expect the 1 st qua...