Exploring China's fiscal policies like maintaining deficit targets and increasing defence spending, along with insights on Taiwan, and Argentina's president's controversial austerity measures to revive the economy.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Wednesday put a £10bn personal tax cut at the heart of his Budget, and China is setting a 5 per cent growth target for this year. Plus, the FT’s Michael Stott sat down with Argentina’s president Javier Milei to talk about the country’s economy. Credit: AP
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