This is a useful read from Reuters on the difficulties China is facing, pushing on a string.

  • China is awash with money and its growth is slowing.
  • To avert a prolonged stagnation, President Xi Jinping’s administration may need to spend its way out of the problem.
  • Yet this and other classic remedies to such a malaise may not be effective in Beijing’s “socialist market economy”.
  • China’s condition may be seen as what economists call a liquidity trap, though the term means different things to different people.

Regardless of your view on China, this is a good learning piece. Recommended.

Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping