New US administration unlikely to be awed by China's year-end spurt

GDP growth improved to 6.8% but only after a 19% increase in public investment and a lighter touch on real estate borrowing
The silver lining in China’s disappointing 2016 growth figures was the pick-up in performance at the end of the year. Or so it seems.Annualised GDP growth improved to 6.8% in the final three months of 2016 – compared to the previous quarter’s 6.7% – in a show of strength that a wary Donald Trump will see as further evidence of Beijing’s trading