{"id":227394,"date":"2025-06-30T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227394\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:39:12","slug":"xi-jinpings-futile-war-on-price-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227394\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s futile war on price wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">When firms raise prices, \u201cgouging\u201d their customers, many governments complain. Some cannot resist intervening. But in today\u2019s China, the opposite is happening. In May the state reprimanded carmakers not for raising prices, but for cutting them. \u201cThere are no winners in this price war,\u201d it said, blithely ignoring the happy customers who can now buy a zippy electric car for less than $8,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When firms raise prices, \u201cgouging\u201d their customers, many governments complain. Some cannot resist intervening. But in today\u2019s China,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1395,1700,1366,16,15,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-227394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-finance-economics","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114774013631356250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}