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  "id": 1459204,
  "title": "China’s economy cools amid debate about risks of global crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/chinas-economy-cools-amid-debate-about-risks-of-global-crisis-1459204",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-17T09:00:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/plus/economy/china-economy/article/3364282/chinas-economy-cools-amid-debate-about-risks-global-crisis"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "China’s retail sales growth trailed expectations, the pace of industrial output expansion slowed and a drop in investment worsened as its economy struggled to regain pace at the start of the second half of the year. July retail sales rose by 0.6 per cent, missing the 1.3 per cent expectation among economists polled by financial data provider Wind, and slowing from June’s 1 per cent rate.…",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "China’s economy cools amid debate about risks of global crisis",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/chinas-economy-cools-amid-debate-about-risks-of-global-crisis",
        "published": "2026-08-17T09:00:33.000Z"
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      {
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/imax-posts-47m-global-weekend-as-the-odyssey-opens-strongly-in-china",
        "published": "2026-08-17T13:23:40.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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