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That could be more efficient, if companies know better than the government how to spend the money.	SUBJ	false
Yulin, a city in Shaanxi province, imposed a fine of 66,000 yuan ($9,500) on a grocer for selling 2.5kg of subpar celery.	OBJ	false
Unable to apply for additional loans itself, it suggested the employees themselves take out loans, which the company pledged to repay.	OBJ	false
Mr Xi has become deeply invested in maintaining a “zero-covid” regime, which he portrays as proof of China’s superior social model.	OBJ	false
Other countries may outpace the country’s economy this year.	OBJ	false
The title was as well received as the argument, echoed in a variety of papers such as “Innovating like China”, “Investing like China” and “Internationalising like China”.	OBJ	false
It is not like China to settle for such underperformance.	SUBJ	false
But in other countries, companies and consumers remained reluctant to borrow even at rock-bottom interest rates.	OBJ	false
That is far below the official target of 5.5%.	OBJ	false
An indebted state-owned bus company in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, floated an ingenious idea to pay the overdue salaries of some of its staff.	SUBJ	false
Thanks to its deep property slump and the government’s “zero-covid” policy, which entails lockdowns in response to every outbreak of the virus, the economy is now forecast to grow by less than 3% in 2022, according to banks such as Nomura, Morgan Stanley and ubs.	SUBJ	false
China’s gdp in 2023 could be more than $2trn below the level forecast in January, reckons Goldman Sachs, another bank.	OBJ	false
Tax breaks for firms account for a big share of this year’s stimulus, compared with the negligible role they played in 2008-09.	OBJ	false
China’s leaders may be seeking to avoid the past’s mistakes, even if it means also forgoing the past’s successes.	OBJ	false
Mr Li has repeatedly promised not to resort to “flood-like” stimulus, a veiled reference to the past.	OBJ	false
Impressed by this result, Yi Wen of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and Jing Wu of Tsinghua University wrote another “like China” paper, entitled “Withstanding the Great Recession like China”.	OBJ	false
China, like other countries, eased monetary policy when the global financial crisis struck.	OBJ	false
As a result, monetary easing did not translate into a big expansion of credit.	OBJ	false
And it was even larger in response to China’s property slowdown in 2015.	OBJ	false
Thus any additional government outlays would be less effective in stimulating private spending.	OBJ	false
In the past, economists have marvelled at its ability to stimulate spending when necessary, so as to meet its growth targets and adequately employ its busy workforce and workshops.	OBJ	false
China had other strings to pull.	OBJ	false
In principle, the central government could do more itself to revive growth.	SUBJ	false
But no one fights covid-19 like China.	SUBJ	false
Yet faster growth in the money supply has not so far translated into an equivalent acceleration of credit.	OBJ	false
Even after the global financial crisis in 2008, China’s gdp quickly caught up to where it would have been had the crisis never happened.	OBJ	false
The country’s resilience, the authors argued, rested on the unconventional bust-busting tools that it had at its disposal.	OBJ	false
But only by about 3% of gdp, according to Goldman Sachs.	OBJ	false
But that is both less than many analysts expected and less than required.	OBJ	false
This year, however, the country is not growing like China at all.	OBJ	false
On September 16th it took more than seven yuan to buy a dollar for the first time since July 2020.	OBJ	false
Torrential spending by the many arms of the state left behind excess capacity, a skewed pattern of production and heavy debts.	SUBJ	false
From hero to zero There is a simpler explanation for the change of approach.	OBJ	false
China’s currency is also weakening.	OBJ	false
And the signs of financial strain are not confined to the ledger books.	OBJ	false
Xi Jinping, China’s president, and Li Keqiang, its prime minister, came into office in 2013, several years after the financial crash, when the unwelcome after-effects of China’s stimulus efforts were keenly felt.	OBJ	false
The property slump has hurt land sales, which accounted for about a third of their revenues last year.	OBJ	false
The fiscal swing was more like 4% of gdp in the two years from 2008 to 2010.	OBJ	false
But it may be less effective, if firms choose not to spend it at all.	OBJ	false
China has cut a variety of interest rates, including its first reduction in the benchmark deposit rate since 2015.	OBJ	false
In 2011 the American Economic Review published an influential article entitled “Growing like China”.	OBJ	false
Its authors, including Zheng Song of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, tried to explain China’s distinctive pace and pattern of development.	OBJ	false
In China, by contrast, state-owned enterprises and local-government financing vehicles (which invest in infrastructure and other civic projects) borrowed eagerly from China’s banks at the government’s behest.	SUBJ	false
Local governments and their financing vehicles, which led the stimulus efforts in 2008, are not now so bold.	SUBJ	false
It has allowed local authorities to issue another 500bn of “special bonds” (which are supposed to be repaid with revenues from the infrastructure projects they finance).	OBJ	false
In addition, the ever-present threat of lockdowns has crushed the confidence of consumers and entrepreneurs.	SUBJ	true
It could increase spending or help bridge the financial gaps suffered by lower levels of government.	SUBJ	true
Why, then, is China not withstanding this year’s slowdown as it did in the past?	OBJ	true
Local governments are under pressure to keep a lid on infections; a preoccupation that would distract them from an all-out effort to boost public investment, even if the financing were available.	SUBJ	true
Gone are the days when they led the world in recession-busting	SUBJ	true
Other countries pushed on a string.	SUBJ	true
A gap has opened up between the gdp path envisaged for China at the start of this year and the grimmer one that now seems probable.	SUBJ	true
In 2017, Vučić even appointed the gay politician Ana Brnabić as his prime ministerial replacement when he became president.	OBJ	false
“Hate speech has been far more prevalent, there have been calls for violence, calls to use weapons to prevent Pride – no one has even been detained or questioned over that, let alone prosecuted.”	OBJ	false
The pan-European festival had opened in the Serbian capital on Monday, with organisers hopeful that it would serve as a measure of progress since 2001.	OBJ	false
After 2001, activists defiantly tried to reorganise, but municipal authorities cancelled year after year, citing security concerns and claiming that they were unable to ensure the safety of participants.	OBJ	false
Garina, who was there, recalls that Belgrade “looked like a war zone”.	OBJ	false
“The idea when we first presented our bid in 2019 was exactly that: to showcase EuroPride in a country that really needs it.	OBJ	false
We wanted to draw attention to the systematic discrimination and the lack of political will to resolve the issues that the community is facing.” He said tolerance had increased in the Serbian capital but less so beyond it.	OBJ	false
Organisers got the green light in 2010, but Pride was once again marred by far-right violence and rioting.	OBJ	false
With a big police presence, Pride finally went ahead peacefully in 2014.	OBJ	false
Dveri said public funds allotted to EuroPride should be redirected to the treatment of sick children.	OBJ	false
“All we need is for the legal system to work in Serbia and for the rule of law to be observed,” she said.	OBJ	false
Mitic said that Dveri members were not against human rights or anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ+ individuals in the workplace, for example, but that they opposed “the promotion of ideological homosexualism” that Pride represented.	OBJ	false
But he said the risk of a violent backlash had grown this year.	OBJ	false
It has been a bumpy road even to this juncture.	SUBJ	false
This year, the party lobbied for a parliamentary vote to ban Pride and, when that failed, it organised protests.	OBJ	false
A large number of influential far-right movements have been vocal in their opposition to EuroPride over recent months, which may have led Vučić to cancel the event.	OBJ	false
Mihailović and fellow organisers had seen EuroPride 2022 as a chance to take the event back to its political roots and remind participants from across Europe that Pride was not merely an opportunity to party.	OBJ	false
This is actually a win for us because it exposes all the faults within our system and the reality of the people who are in power.	SUBJ	false
“Next year we won’t have the visibility that we have this year.	OBJ	false
But a last-minute police ban on Saturday’s EuroPride parade, the planned climax of the week-long programme, has cast a spotlight on the ongoing struggle for equality in the Balkans.	OBJ	false
Either way, she said, a public gathering of some kind would go ahead on Saturday.	OBJ	false
“Visibility has increased – but that progress is just in Belgrade.	OBJ	false
In June 2001, nine months after the toppling of Serbia’s autocratic president Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian capital, Belgrade, attempted to host its first Pride parade.	OBJ	false
“After EuroPride went to Warsaw in 2010 and Riga in 2015, Belgrade seemed like a natural next step in terms of being political and complicated.”	OBJ	false
Civil partnerships that give same-sex couples the same rights as married ones, for example, remain nonexistent.	OBJ	false
The strongest and most consistent opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Serbia has come from Dveri, a party of hard-right religious conservatives that often organises a “family values parade” on the day of Belgrade Pride as a form of counter-protest.	OBJ	false
On Sunday, anti-pride demonstrators including biker gangs, religious groups and far-right nationalists rallied in the capital “for marriage and the family”, demanding that the EuroPride parade be banned.	OBJ	false
Belgrade was chosen over Barcelona, Dublin and Lisbon to host EuroPride 2022.	OBJ	false
When Serbia became a candidate for EU membership in 2009, the government came under pressure from Brussels to prove its commitment to democratic values.	OBJ	false
However, Mihailović remains defiant, and says that the far right has not won.	OBJ	false
The event, which organisers had envisaged as a celebration of a new, progressive era, turned into a chaotic nightmare.	SUBJ	false
Tensions have surrounded the event since the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, announced last month that EuroPride would have to be called off, out of fears that rightwing protests would lead to violent clashes.	OBJ	false
Marko Mihailović, the 29-year-old figurehead of Belgrade Pride, led the city’s winning bid.	OBJ	false
“This [cancellation] shows the necessity of hosting EuroPride in Belgrade,” Mihailović said.	OBJ	false
“There have been more rightwing extremists spreading lies and malicious conspiracy theories in the media than in previous years,” he said.	OBJ	false
“I’m more concerned about next year,” he admits.	OBJ	false
Up to 10,000 people had been expected in Belgrade for the parade.	OBJ	false
“Absolutely not.	OBJ	false
Although Dveri is a negligible force in national politics – the party won just 4% of the vote in this year’s election – a supermajority of parliamentary seats are held by right-leaning parties that have no electoral incentive to improve LGBTQ+ rights.	OBJ	false
Vučić said he regretted it but cited a deepening security crisis with neighbouring Kosovo and economic pressures among other reasons for postponing EuroPride to “happier times”.	OBJ	false
The rest of Serbia is as homophobic as ever.” Serbia, where same-sex unions are not lawful, represented a new frontier for the wider LGBTQ+ movement, Garina said.	OBJ	false
And while local far-right activists appear to have quietly accepted defeat over Belgrade Pride, a tame and small-scale annual event, the ferocity of their opposition to EuroPride reveals that social attitudes are not much different from 2001.	SUBJ	false
The ultras of Belgrade’s biggest football clubs momentarily put tribal animosities aside and ran riot across the city, beating up parade-goers and fighting running battles with the police that left two officers seriously injured.	OBJ	false
A first day of scheduled events went ahead without incident on Monday, but on Tuesday police issued a ban on Saturday’s parade, as well as any counter-protests.	OBJ	false
Kristine Garina, the Latvian president of the European Pride Organisers Association, said organisers were appealing against the ban in the courts.	OBJ	false
“We regard this as the tyranny of an extreme minority that’s trying to impose its own values in contradiction to the collective moral values of society.”	OBJ	false
For now it appears that the extremists have got their way.	OBJ	false
This is not a loss in any way.” But at the same time, he expresses fears about the future of the battle for equality in the country.	OBJ	false

That could be more efficient, if companies know better than the government how to spend the money.

SUBJ

false

Yulin, a city in Shaanxi province, imposed a fine of 66,000 yuan ($9,500) on a grocer for selling 2.5kg of subpar celery.

OBJ

false

Unable to apply for additional loans itself, it suggested the employees themselves take out loans, which the company pledged to repay.

OBJ

false

Mr Xi has become deeply invested in maintaining a “zero-covid” regime, which he portrays as proof of China’s superior social model.

OBJ

false

Other countries may outpace the country’s economy this year.

OBJ

false

The title was as well received as the argument, echoed in a variety of papers such as “Innovating like China”, “Investing like China” and “Internationalising like China”.

OBJ

false

It is not like China to settle for such underperformance.

SUBJ

false

But in other countries, companies and consumers remained reluctant to borrow even at rock-bottom interest rates.

OBJ

false

That is far below the official target of 5.5%.

OBJ

false

An indebted state-owned bus company in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, floated an ingenious idea to pay the overdue salaries of some of its staff.

SUBJ

false

Thanks to its deep property slump and the government’s “zero-covid” policy, which entails lockdowns in response to every outbreak of the virus, the economy is now forecast to grow by less than 3% in 2022, according to banks such as Nomura, Morgan Stanley and ubs.

SUBJ

false

China’s gdp in 2023 could be more than $2trn below the level forecast in January, reckons Goldman Sachs, another bank.

OBJ

false

Tax breaks for firms account for a big share of this year’s stimulus, compared with the negligible role they played in 2008-09.

OBJ

false

China’s leaders may be seeking to avoid the past’s mistakes, even if it means also forgoing the past’s successes.

OBJ

false

Mr Li has repeatedly promised not to resort to “flood-like” stimulus, a veiled reference to the past.

OBJ

false

Impressed by this result, Yi Wen of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and Jing Wu of Tsinghua University wrote another “like China” paper, entitled “Withstanding the Great Recession like China”.

OBJ

false

China, like other countries, eased monetary policy when the global financial crisis struck.

OBJ

false

As a result, monetary easing did not translate into a big expansion of credit.

OBJ

false

And it was even larger in response to China’s property slowdown in 2015.

OBJ

false

Thus any additional government outlays would be less effective in stimulating private spending.

OBJ

false

In the past, economists have marvelled at its ability to stimulate spending when necessary, so as to meet its growth targets and adequately employ its busy workforce and workshops.

OBJ

false

China had other strings to pull.

OBJ

false

In principle, the central government could do more itself to revive growth.

SUBJ

false

But no one fights covid-19 like China.

SUBJ

false

Yet faster growth in the money supply has not so far translated into an equivalent acceleration of credit.

OBJ

false

Even after the global financial crisis in 2008, China’s gdp quickly caught up to where it would have been had the crisis never happened.

OBJ

false

The country’s resilience, the authors argued, rested on the unconventional bust-busting tools that it had at its disposal.

OBJ

false

But only by about 3% of gdp, according to Goldman Sachs.

OBJ

false

But that is both less than many analysts expected and less than required.

OBJ

false

This year, however, the country is not growing like China at all.

OBJ

false

On September 16th it took more than seven yuan to buy a dollar for the first time since July 2020.

OBJ

false

Torrential spending by the many arms of the state left behind excess capacity, a skewed pattern of production and heavy debts.

SUBJ

false

From hero to zero There is a simpler explanation for the change of approach.

OBJ

false

China’s currency is also weakening.

OBJ

false

And the signs of financial strain are not confined to the ledger books.

OBJ

false

Xi Jinping, China’s president, and Li Keqiang, its prime minister, came into office in 2013, several years after the financial crash, when the unwelcome after-effects of China’s stimulus efforts were keenly felt.

OBJ

false

The property slump has hurt land sales, which accounted for about a third of their revenues last year.

OBJ

false

The fiscal swing was more like 4% of gdp in the two years from 2008 to 2010.

OBJ

false

But it may be less effective, if firms choose not to spend it at all.

OBJ

false

China has cut a variety of interest rates, including its first reduction in the benchmark deposit rate since 2015.

OBJ

false

In 2011 the American Economic Review published an influential article entitled “Growing like China”.

OBJ

false

Its authors, including Zheng Song of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, tried to explain China’s distinctive pace and pattern of development.

OBJ

false

In China, by contrast, state-owned enterprises and local-government financing vehicles (which invest in infrastructure and other civic projects) borrowed eagerly from China’s banks at the government’s behest.

SUBJ

false

Local governments and their financing vehicles, which led the stimulus efforts in 2008, are not now so bold.

SUBJ

false

It has allowed local authorities to issue another 500bn of “special bonds” (which are supposed to be repaid with revenues from the infrastructure projects they finance).

OBJ

false

In addition, the ever-present threat of lockdowns has crushed the confidence of consumers and entrepreneurs.

SUBJ

true

It could increase spending or help bridge the financial gaps suffered by lower levels of government.

SUBJ

true

Why, then, is China not withstanding this year’s slowdown as it did in the past?

OBJ

true

Local governments are under pressure to keep a lid on infections; a preoccupation that would distract them from an all-out effort to boost public investment, even if the financing were available.

SUBJ

true

Gone are the days when they led the world in recession-busting

SUBJ

true

Other countries pushed on a string.

SUBJ

true

A gap has opened up between the gdp path envisaged for China at the start of this year and the grimmer one that now seems probable.

SUBJ

true

In 2017, Vučić even appointed the gay politician Ana Brnabić as his prime ministerial replacement when he became president.

OBJ

false

“Hate speech has been far more prevalent, there have been calls for violence, calls to use weapons to prevent Pride – no one has even been detained or questioned over that, let alone prosecuted.”

OBJ

false

The pan-European festival had opened in the Serbian capital on Monday, with organisers hopeful that it would serve as a measure of progress since 2001.

OBJ

false

After 2001, activists defiantly tried to reorganise, but municipal authorities cancelled year after year, citing security concerns and claiming that they were unable to ensure the safety of participants.

OBJ

false

Garina, who was there, recalls that Belgrade “looked like a war zone”.

OBJ

false

“The idea when we first presented our bid in 2019 was exactly that: to showcase EuroPride in a country that really needs it.

OBJ

false

We wanted to draw attention to the systematic discrimination and the lack of political will to resolve the issues that the community is facing.” He said tolerance had increased in the Serbian capital but less so beyond it.

OBJ

false

Organisers got the green light in 2010, but Pride was once again marred by far-right violence and rioting.

OBJ

false

With a big police presence, Pride finally went ahead peacefully in 2014.

OBJ

false

Dveri said public funds allotted to EuroPride should be redirected to the treatment of sick children.

OBJ

false

“All we need is for the legal system to work in Serbia and for the rule of law to be observed,” she said.

OBJ

false

Mitic said that Dveri members were not against human rights or anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ+ individuals in the workplace, for example, but that they opposed “the promotion of ideological homosexualism” that Pride represented.

OBJ

false

But he said the risk of a violent backlash had grown this year.

OBJ

false

It has been a bumpy road even to this juncture.

SUBJ

false

This year, the party lobbied for a parliamentary vote to ban Pride and, when that failed, it organised protests.

OBJ

false

A large number of influential far-right movements have been vocal in their opposition to EuroPride over recent months, which may have led Vučić to cancel the event.

OBJ

false

Mihailović and fellow organisers had seen EuroPride 2022 as a chance to take the event back to its political roots and remind participants from across Europe that Pride was not merely an opportunity to party.

OBJ

false

This is actually a win for us because it exposes all the faults within our system and the reality of the people who are in power.

SUBJ

false

“Next year we won’t have the visibility that we have this year.

OBJ

false

But a last-minute police ban on Saturday’s EuroPride parade, the planned climax of the week-long programme, has cast a spotlight on the ongoing struggle for equality in the Balkans.

OBJ

false

Either way, she said, a public gathering of some kind would go ahead on Saturday.

OBJ

false

“Visibility has increased – but that progress is just in Belgrade.

OBJ

false

In June 2001, nine months after the toppling of Serbia’s autocratic president Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian capital, Belgrade, attempted to host its first Pride parade.

OBJ

false

“After EuroPride went to Warsaw in 2010 and Riga in 2015, Belgrade seemed like a natural next step in terms of being political and complicated.”

OBJ

false

Civil partnerships that give same-sex couples the same rights as married ones, for example, remain nonexistent.

OBJ

false

The strongest and most consistent opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Serbia has come from Dveri, a party of hard-right religious conservatives that often organises a “family values parade” on the day of Belgrade Pride as a form of counter-protest.

OBJ

false

On Sunday, anti-pride demonstrators including biker gangs, religious groups and far-right nationalists rallied in the capital “for marriage and the family”, demanding that the EuroPride parade be banned.

OBJ

false

Belgrade was chosen over Barcelona, Dublin and Lisbon to host EuroPride 2022.

OBJ

false

When Serbia became a candidate for EU membership in 2009, the government came under pressure from Brussels to prove its commitment to democratic values.

OBJ

false

However, Mihailović remains defiant, and says that the far right has not won.

OBJ

false

The event, which organisers had envisaged as a celebration of a new, progressive era, turned into a chaotic nightmare.

SUBJ

false

Tensions have surrounded the event since the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, announced last month that EuroPride would have to be called off, out of fears that rightwing protests would lead to violent clashes.

OBJ

false

Marko Mihailović, the 29-year-old figurehead of Belgrade Pride, led the city’s winning bid.

OBJ

false

“This [cancellation] shows the necessity of hosting EuroPride in Belgrade,” Mihailović said.

OBJ

false

“There have been more rightwing extremists spreading lies and malicious conspiracy theories in the media than in previous years,” he said.

OBJ

false

“I’m more concerned about next year,” he admits.

OBJ

false

Up to 10,000 people had been expected in Belgrade for the parade.

OBJ

false

“Absolutely not.

OBJ

false

Although Dveri is a negligible force in national politics – the party won just 4% of the vote in this year’s election – a supermajority of parliamentary seats are held by right-leaning parties that have no electoral incentive to improve LGBTQ+ rights.

OBJ

false

Vučić said he regretted it but cited a deepening security crisis with neighbouring Kosovo and economic pressures among other reasons for postponing EuroPride to “happier times”.

OBJ

false

The rest of Serbia is as homophobic as ever.” Serbia, where same-sex unions are not lawful, represented a new frontier for the wider LGBTQ+ movement, Garina said.

OBJ

false

And while local far-right activists appear to have quietly accepted defeat over Belgrade Pride, a tame and small-scale annual event, the ferocity of their opposition to EuroPride reveals that social attitudes are not much different from 2001.

SUBJ

false

The ultras of Belgrade’s biggest football clubs momentarily put tribal animosities aside and ran riot across the city, beating up parade-goers and fighting running battles with the police that left two officers seriously injured.

OBJ

false

A first day of scheduled events went ahead without incident on Monday, but on Tuesday police issued a ban on Saturday’s parade, as well as any counter-protests.

OBJ

false

Kristine Garina, the Latvian president of the European Pride Organisers Association, said organisers were appealing against the ban in the courts.

OBJ

false

“We regard this as the tyranny of an extreme minority that’s trying to impose its own values in contradiction to the collective moral values of society.”

OBJ

false

For now it appears that the extremists have got their way.

OBJ

false

This is not a loss in any way.” But at the same time, he expresses fears about the future of the battle for equality in the country.

OBJ

false