China steps up economic monitoring, looking to head off worst-case scenarios

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Amid erratic US tariff threats and with the world economy in flux, China’s top economic planner says that more economic monitoring and early-warning capabilities are needed.The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is soliciting studies to assess the impacts of US tariffs and to refine China’s existing monitoring indicators “in the context of global economic and trade order restructuring”.It also plans to evaluate how non-tariff barriers of various countries might impact China’s...