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Chinese President Xi Jinping walks to the Monument to the People's Heroes during a ceremony at Tiananmen Square, on the eve of National Day on September 30, 2018 in Beijing, China.

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  • China is suffering from "economic long COVID," Adam Posen wrote in Foreign Affairs.
  • Its sluggish post-COVID rebound may be a long-term trend, said the Peterson Institute's president.
  • Like other authoritarian regimes, China's economic development is following a predictable pattern, he noted.

China's economy can rightly be compared to COVID cases where symptoms keep lingering and leave the infected weak for the long term, an expert wrote in Foreign Affairs.

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China's economy is trapped in a downward spiral that authoritarian regimes are …