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The business has been struggling with sluggish sales - and has not posted a quarterly profit in more than five years - as shoppers turn away from its meat alternatives.

U.S. shipbuilding has been sluggish, and Australia needs to recruit submariners to operate the boats.

Local officials first raised the prospect during the national reckoning on racial injustice that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, but the plan has progressed in sluggish fits and starts since then.

This month's meeting comes at an uncertain time for the Chinese economy, beset by sluggish domestic spending, a protracted crisis in the property sector and a turbulent trade war with the United States.

But this year, Single's Day sales have already begun in mid-October, as part of efforts by Chinese retailers to boost spending in a sluggish market.