China’s economic outlook is showing no signs of improvement, with economists broadly trimming their expectations for the nation’s recovery, prices and trade. Economists now see gross domestic product expanding 5.1% in 2023 from the prior year, according to the median estimate in the latest Bloomberg survey. That’s down from an earlier expectation of 5.2% and brings projections closer to the government’s target of about 5% — a number widely seen as conservative when it was set in March. The downgrade is attributable in part to lower projections for growth in the third quarter: Economists now see GDP expanding 4.4% in ... (full story)