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Why British investors are wrong to panic about China

It’s not that important to our economy – not yet, anyway – and its slowdown has been exaggerated

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

At the risk of sounding like Neville Chamberlain, how bizarre that we should be panic-selling our stock-market investments in reaction to the news of a slight economic slowdown in a faraway country to which we export little and whose direct investments in our own economy created fewer than 5,000 new jobs last year.

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