Chinese Economics Thread

Chish

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So the actual report is Bloomberg forecasting 2022's GDP growth... although reporters are using the word "seen" as if its actually happened. It hasn't.
Currently the US GDP growth rate for 2022 is... -1.3% (the US GDP shrunk)
China's is 1.2%

Just to clear things up.
US 1 quarter growth was expected at 1% but dropped to -1.4%. That is 2.4% off their target. The second quarter isn't looking good either.
Due to War, inflation, covid, climate change, geopolitics, etc, the GDP of both China and US are very variable. Bloomberg is very brave (actually stupid) to have published that article.
 

Chish

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Hope they go through with it, housing for living not for speculation.
Previously Western media had made a big fuss predicting a housing bubble in China due to Evergrande Group. Yet China is now doubling down in curbing housing speculation. Seem China is willing to have a hit at its GDP in return for more housing affordability.
 

Rettam Stacf

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IPEF consists of :
agreed standards in four main areas: the digital economy, supply chains, clean energy infrastructure and anti-corruption measures.
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Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

Seems fairly useless. Just a bunch of standardisation rules that China could easily follow if it wanted as well

Glanced through the FACT SHEET. It sets a standard for trade between countries that sign up to the IPEF but does not seem to restrict signatories to use other standards with countries outside of IPEF. So in effect, at least for the short term, it will restrict trade between IPEF countries while having no effect on others.

Am I reading this right ?
 

Chish

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IPEF consists of :
agreed standards in four main areas: the digital economy, supply chains, clean energy infrastructure and anti-corruption measures.
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Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

Seems fairly useless. Just a bunch of standardisation rules that China could easily follow if it wanted as well
Wouldn't this complicates things further when they already have Build Back Better World, Blue Dot Network, APEC, OECD, RCEP, AEC(ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025) plus each country multiple bilateral agreements and disagreements among members?
And then there is MAGA Trump coming back?
 
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