involution
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Chinese policymakers have made boosting domestic demand their top policy priority and vowed to crack down on “involution,” a buzzword for price wars and excessive competition.
Beijing for the past year or so has worried about “involution,” a situation in which overproduction leads to “too much” domestic price competition.
This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.
From Science Daily
He observes, for example, that “in one of the strange involutions of the modern age, we go onto the internet to see what’s the matter with the internet.”
This is “involution,” a once esoteric term that has come to define life for many in China and capture the biggest problems in the world’s second-largest economy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
