China’s Economic Wobbles Cast Long Shadow for Asia

SINGAPORE/SEOUL (Reuters) – China’s economic setbacks have darkened the outlook for countries in its orbit, from South Korea to Thailand, as a sharp factory slowdown and trade bottlenecks in the world’s second-largest economy hit Asia on the supply as well as demand sides.

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