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Has iron ore helped the Budget?

Wednesday 7 September 2016

From Angus Grigg at the AFR today:

It was the moment China announced it was giving up on reform.

Premier Li Keqiang, standing in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, said the priority was economic growth – not the difficult structural reforms the Communist Party had been discussing for the previous two years.

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