The statistics coming out of China, how reliable do you think that they are? So I tend to be somewhat forgiving. They have a very bad reputation. And interestingly, they have got a bad reputation within China itself among the public. There was an interesting exchange recently in the Chinese media where a reporter said to one of the chief statisticians in China, there's a temperature difference. She said there's aperature difference between people's feelings about the economy and what the macro data are saying.
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