And now to something completely different

К сегодняшним посиделкам в кофейниках:

May 11 -- The average transaction price of commercial residential properties in Beijing for the week ended May 9 fell 1,790 yuan per square meter or 9.6 percent week-on-week to 16,898 yuan per square meter, reports The Beijing News, citing statistics released by Beijing Real Estate Information Network.

Compared with the week ended April 11, the average transaction price of commercial residential properties in Beijing plunged 31.43 percent or 7,744 yuan per square meter.

Главный импортёр американской инфляции, похоже, несколько притомился пить из этого брандспойта.

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s trade surplus shrank 87 percent in April from a year earlier as imports grew faster than exports because of stimulus-driven domestic demand. [...]

Chinese stocks entered a bear market as the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.7 percent, taking its slide since Nov. 23 to 20 percent.[...]

China’s official manufacturing index, released May 1, showed input prices rising by the most in 22 months. The statistics bureau may report tomorrow that producer prices climbed the most in 18 months and consumer inflation quickened, according to separate Bloomberg surveys.

В задаче спрашивается, сколько американских ГКО купили бодрые китайцы за последние два месяца.