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Growth May Slow  Can China navigate around short-term obstacles
to growth?  Bearemy Glaser, 07/14/2011  We got news this week
that China's blistering growth rate slowed slightly in the first
quarter of the year. The Chinese economy "only" expanded 9.5% in
the first quarter, down from 9.7% during the last quarter of
2010. Given the developed rest of the world's seeming inability
to grow at all, these numbers remain impressive. Indeed, many
are hoping that the expanding emerging-markets countries
(notably China) will help keep the global economy going as
austerity and slow growth become the buzzwords in the west. But
are these hopes for endless growth justified?  The long-term
growth prospects for China are notable as the country carves out
an enormous new middle class