BEIJING: China said on Wednesday that its economic recovery "will be a bumpy and tortuous process," but insisted Western critics "will for sure be proven wrong."

The comments come after a raft of recent figures that have stoked concerns over China's stuttering post-Covid recovery, and after US President Joe Biden said the country's mounting economic problems made it a "ticking time bomb."

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