If you don’t understand what’s going on in China, you’re not alone. Even though the country is constantly in the headlines and will soon overtake the US as the world’s largest economy, China is a black box. Its economy is difficult to assess amid murky politics, unreliable data (according to Bloomberg, to this day, many Chinese people believe that Mao Zedong didn’t know millions of people were starving in the Great Leap Forward) and opaque decision-making while lawmakers and policy makers continue to introduce new rules and regulations at the drop of a hat.
As China is entirely impossible to predict, the region is...


