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In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.

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Wolfgang Schauble
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 18
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