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Today China acknowledged what many had already suspected.

COVID-19 has caused a contraction in the country's economy.

The last time that GDP officially dipped was in 1976 when China's decade-long cultural

revolution came to an end with the death of its architect, Chairman Mao Zedong.

Every since then, even after Tien and its square, the SARS outbreak, the financial crisis,

China has kept up an extraordinary growth streak that has it firmly in place as the world's

second largest economy.

Thanks to what the National Statistics Bureau calls growing uncertainties and heightened

pressures, that streak has come to an end.

While many looked at China for signs of how other economies will climb out of the COVID

crisis, that uncertainty and those pressures haven't gone away.

I mean, the headline was dramatic.

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