{"id":81492,"date":"2025-08-20T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81492\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:48:12","slug":"china-struggles-vainly-to-stimulate-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81492\/","title":{"rendered":"China Struggles Vainly to Stimulate Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Toh Han Shih<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Kv_S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96ea7461-1fb4-4cc8-bf44-92bad89e5d7b_933x588.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/96ea7461-1fb4-4cc8-bf44-92bad89e5d7b_933x.jpeg\" width=\"933\" height=\"588\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/96ea7461-1fb4-4cc8-bf44-92bad89e5d7b_933x588.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:588,&quot;width&quot;:933,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:129824,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/i\/171373503?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96ea7461-1fb4-4cc8-bf44-92bad89e5d7b_933x588.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With China\u2019s economy flagging for half a decade, measures announced this week to buttress the faltering system, including possible stimulus for private enterprise, are band-aid solutions that don\u2019t include the deep reforms the world\u2019s second-largest economy needs, economists say.<\/p>\n<p>On August 18, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang vowed at a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Toh Han Shih With China\u2019s economy flagging for half a decade, measures announced this week to buttress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-81492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}