INTERNATIONAL DESK: For China’s middle class, things have never looked harder as they reflected on 2023 and peered ahead to the second year of what should be a post-pandemic economic recovery in 2024. No signs have yet emerged to upend their frustration as the property market meltdown and free-falling stock market have continued to wipe … Continue reading China’s vulnerable middle class must work harder to maintain status quo, Beijing seeks urgent fix for indispensable cohort