China Remains an Outlier in a World of Surging Inflation
Consumer prices in the world’s second-largest economy have held relatively steady, but China’s experience will be hard to replicate elsewhere
HONG KONG—As inflation soars around the world, the world’s second-largest economy has kept it at bay.
Consumer prices in China increased just 1.5% in March from a year earlier, after rising 0.9% in 2021 from the year before.