China: A New Economic Model? – The Curious Capitalist – TIME.com

Posted by Matt in March 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, Asian Financial Crisis, Banking Sector, Bureaucrats, China Economic, China Today, Chinese Economy, Decade, Desk Lamp, Economic Model, Economy China, Europe, Explosion, Government Policy, Hefty Portion, India, Japan, Loan Problem, Loans, Local Governments, Mixed Economies

But what we’ve learned from these examples from history is that the state-led aspects of “mixed” economies can create as much harm as good. Bureaucratic meddling was a key factor behind Japan’s Lost Decade(s) and the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The sickest part of the “mixed” economies in Europe and India was state-controlled industry. [...]

China’s Threat: Bluffing or Real?

Posted by Matt in February 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, beijing, China Threat, Chinese Economy, Destabilization, Doubt, Financial Catastrophe, Grand Scheme Of Things, Measures, Point Of View, Rapid Growth, Retaliation, S Market, sanctions, Scheme Of Things, Symbolic Actions, U S Treasury, Unhappiness

However, China’s will to take such measures is in doubt. China is aware that, despite its huge holdings of U.S. treasury debt, imposing serious sanctions on U.S. firms will leave it exceedingly vulnerable to U.S. retaliation. The Chinese economy, for all its rapid growth, is fundamentally misaligned, and its leaders are struggling to make adjustments [...]

10 China Myths for the New Decade

Posted by Matt in January 29th, 2010 | 1 comment

Published in China, Favorites, American Myths, Asia Expert, China Economic, Chinese Economy, Contrary, Conventional Wisdom, Economic Growth, Heritage Foundation, Market Economy, Misinformation, New Decade, Recession, Scissors

China’s economic growth has been accompanied by growing misinformation about its economy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, China is not leading the world out of a recession, is no longer moving toward a market economy, is not America’s banker, and may never surpass the U.S. Heritage Foundation Asia expert Derek Scissors debunks 10 leading myths about [...]

China’s Economy: Something Is Not Right in Beijing

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, beijing, Boom, Bust, China Economy, China S Economy, Chinese Economy, Japan, Liquidity, Rough Patch, Ssb

It is certainly true that China’s experience will not be the same as Japan’s 20 years ago or America’s last year, especially since official data are altered for political reasons. Nonetheless, a bust always follows a liquidity-driven boom. The SSB’s reports will remain happy, but the Chinese economy is headed for a rough patch, this [...]

The End of Chimerica — HBS Working Knowledge

Posted by Matt in December 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Niall Ferguson, U.S., Chinese Economy, Chinese Export, Devaluation, Economic Historians, Freie UniversitäT Berlin, Global Liquidity, Hbs, Inflation Outlook, International Political Debate, Low Interest Rates, Marriage Of Convenience, Overconsumption, Problem Of China, Renminbi Revaluation, Reorientation, Sole Superpower, Stable Rate, Term Perspective, Top Priority, World Economy

For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call “Chimerica”: a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the basis of a financial marriage between the world’s sole superpower and its most likely future rival. For [...]

China will soon export its ideas as well – The Independent

Posted by Matt in November 18th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, 80s, beijing, Bump, China Export, Chinese Economy, climate change, Commentators, Consequences, denial, Economic Projections, geopolitics, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Matter Of Time, Populus, Relationships, Stock Market Bubbles, Transition, Western Societies, Whole Caboodle

There are economic projections showing that China will pass the U.S. in 2027. Well, I’m here to tell you that it will never happen.
Let’s ignore all of China’s internal problems for now. Let’s ignore the fact that China is inefficiently allocating capital and creating one big bubble that is about to burst. No, China has [...]

China’s Demographic Imbalances Widen – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Demographics, Administrative Affairs, Age Population, Aging Population, China Population, Chinese Economy, Chinese Leadership, Civil Affairs, Economic Growth, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Growth Mode, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, October 26, Political Instability, Population Growth, Senior Officials, Slowdown, Surplus Labor, Total Population, Xinhua News Agency

Even as the Chinese economy under the Hu-Wen administration is set to wean through the global financial crisis with a remarkable eight percent growth rate this year, senior officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs under the jurisdiction of the State Council, which is responsible for social and administrative affairs, revealed that China’s aging population—people [...]

The China Bubble’s Coming — But Not the One You Think | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in July 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Blogged, China, Chinese Economy, Chinese Stock Market, Commentators, Decline, Flock Browser, Foreign Policy, Rest Of The World, shanghai, Stock Bubble, Stocks

Forget about a Shanghai stock bubble. The whole Chinese economy’s getting ready to burst.
Financial commentators are obsessively debating whether the recent rise in the Chinese stock market means there’s a bubble — and if so, when it’s going to burst.
My take? Who cares! What happens to the broader Chinese economy is what we should really [...]

China is a threat to global good

Posted by Matt in May 11th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Asia, China, Africa, Armed Forces, China, Chinese Economy, Despots, Indian Ocean, Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam Ltte, myanmar, Natural Choice, Sake, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, String Of Pearls, Tamil Tigers

But what happened so suddenly that the Sri Lankan armed forces finally managed to decimate the formidable Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)?
We can look to China for an answer. Having supported despots in Africa and Myanmar for the sake of resources to feed a surging Chinese economy, Sri Lanka was a natural choice to [...]

Disaster on a Tiananmen scale looms for the Chinese Communist Party

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Anecdotal Evidence, Blow, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Economy, Cold Blood, Deng, Disappearance, Disaster, elite, Leadership, Paramount Leader, prosperity, Rapid Rate, Regime, Slowdown, Sons And Daughters, Tiananmen, Vested Interest

There is overwhelming anecdotal evidence to confirm a drastic slowdown in the Chinese economy. And it appears likely, again from media reports however truncated, censored, and optimistically interpreted – by those who know the Chinese economy best but who have a vested interest in its continued prosperity – that it is continuing to decelerate at [...]