The financial benefit was supposedly both short term (an influx of transfer cash) and long-term (shifting expensive contracts).

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But in fact, China's version of "stimulus" has been arguably more responsible than America's, with more of it going to public works projects than simply to transfer payments for short-term consumption.

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