CHINA's economy is slowing down. Current forecasts put China's GDP growth in 2023 at less than 5 percent, below the forecasts made last year and far below the high growth rates that China enjoyed until the late 2010s. The Western press is filled with China's supposed misdeeds: a financial crisis in the real-estate market, a general overhang of debt and other ills.

Yet much of the slowdown is the result of US measures that aim to slow China's growth. Such US policies violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and are a danger to global prosperity. They should be stopped.