CHINA'S LEADERS ARE usually shy of telling things as they are, but the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, put it bluntly when he described China's economy in 2007 as "unstable, unbalanced, unco-ordinated and unsustainable". Some foreigners may extol China's handling of the global financial crisis, but Mr Wen has stuck to his guns. The phrase even crops up in China's recently adopted five-year economic plan, standing out as an indirect admission of the failings of his own administration and as a marker for the next.
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