very concerned about the deflatiion mentioned here > Which brings me to the bottom line of my latest sojourn to China: China is > now beginning to come to grips with the global context of many of its macro > problems. The senior officials we met with in Beijing were quite frank in > expressing their concerns about global deflation. They were also convinced > that an overvalued US dollar was ripe for a fall. Moreover, official Beijing > now concedes that both of these developments have important consequences for > China. This is a subtle but important shift. I detected greater concern on > both counts than I did in several visits earlier this year. To me, that's > real progress. The difference comes in the sticky area of blame. China > argues that it is an innocent bystander -- and a source of resilience -- in > an otherwise shaky global economy. The rest of the world sees it > differently -- that China's emerging economic prowess is now part of the > problem. > It's tempting to find a scapegoat in tough economic times. It would be one > thing if the world were booming -- there would be plenty of prosperity to > share. But with today's global economy in lousy shape, it's more of a > zero-sum game -- one country's gains can often come at the expense of > another's. Such are the pressures and finger-pointing that China must now > face. One of the investors on the trip summed it up best, "Just as the world > must now cope with China, China must also cope with the world." The global > response to China looms as one of the biggest unknowns in the macro > equation. It could well be the most important test of all for the world's > greatest growth story. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: realtraders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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