
Blog posts tagged by tag: China
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Our analysts' expectations for 2023
In our latest insight piece, we look at some of our key 2023 forecasts.
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India vs China : What is the long-term outlook for Asia’s two behemoths?
In our latest insight piece, we look at the economic outlook in the coming years for Asia’s two largest economies.
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China and the world: a slow goodbye?
The 2008 Beijing Olympics was the event that thrust China well and truly onto the global stage. The spectacular opening ceremony—watched by billions around the world and held in the futuristic ‘bird’s nest’ stadium—was a powerful symbol of the nation at the time: confident, modern, outward-looking.
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Going against the tide: China’s monetary stimulus efforts run contrary to those of other major central banks
The Chinese economy is currently grappling with numerous regulatory reforms, a bloated, debt-ridden property market, and a zero-tolerance approach to the pandemic, which continues to limit economic growth both domestically and in the region. As a result, over the past couple of months Chinese authorities have taken several measures to stimulate the economy, including a 50 basis-point cut to the reserve requirement ratio and a 15 basis-point cut to the one-year Loan Prime Rate. This comes as major central banks in developed markets look to roll back their stimulus measures to counter price pressures.
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China: Interview with Scotiabank
On 15 January, the U.S. and China signed a "phase one" trade deal covering areas such as Chinese purchases of U.S. goods and services, exchange rate arrangements and intellectual property. To discuss Sino-American relations in more depth, and to gain a broader picture of China’s economy and outlook, we spoke to Tuuli McCully, Scotiabank’s chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region.
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China: Taking the Economic Center Stage
The Belt & Road and Made in China 2025 initiatives strive for a global economy with China at its core
“Hide your strength, bide your time, never take the lead”; such was the philosophy of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the market reforms in the 1970s and 1980s which set the Chinese economy careening towards modernity.
This maxim underpinned Chinese policy for decades, allowing the Asian giant’s economic rise to go largely unchallenged. Many countries drooled at the sight of a swelling new export market, while Western firms ploughed in FDI.
In 2017, current leader Xi Jinping sounded the death knell for Deng’s approach. Speaking at the 19th National Congress—amid a power vacuum left by Donald Trump’s mercantilism and the EU’s internal wrangling over Brexit—he promised China would adopt a more determining role in world affairs.
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China and Africa: A partnership under the spotlight
“A new chapter in Kenya’s history”: that’s how Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta described the triumphant opening of the railway line linking the capital Nairobi to the key port city of Mombasa in 2017.
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What impact would a trade war between the U.S. and China have on their economies?
By: Daniel Solomon, PhD Economist at Euromonitor International
In this article, we analyse the impact of the U.S. and China tariff actions on their economies and consumers and explore the possibility of these actions turning into an all-out trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
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The Latest on China and What's in Store for 2018
China has been one of the fastest growing economies over the last few decades and is now the second largest economy in the world, just behind the United States. However, after years of astronomical economic growth, the economy is currently in the middle of a “managed” slow down, due in large part to Chinese authorities’ desire to avoid the economy overheating. So what is going on in China currently and what is in store for 2018? Head of Economic Research Ricard Torné reports.
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China’s growing influence on the Latin American economy
In recent decades, China’s impact on global growth has showed no signs of waning; this was especially evident in the years following the global financial crisis. In fact, the country's influence on Latin America is growing stronger by the year, and this is due primarily to three main factors.
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