China's economic policies are showing signs of confusion

'Shadow stimulus' at local levels lets Beijing avoid direct choices and blame

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Xi Jinping is not interested in reducing state control or engaging in major structural reforms. © AP

Andrew Collier is managing director at Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong.

China's leadership has no easy path out of the problems of handling the latest COVID wave, its impact on supply chains, the property slump and the slowing economy. That has led to open division in the government over the direction of policy.

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