The Chinese economy is shutting down

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The Chinese economy is shutting down. Yuan Talks:

China’s ongoing energy use restrictions and power crunch are hurting industrial production across several regions and dragging on the country’s economic growth, analysts say.

The current round of power shortage is mainly due to the country’s so-called “dual energy control”, referring to the country’s efforts to cut energy consumption and energy intensity, the amount of energy consumed per unit of GDP, analysts say.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.