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Chinese state researchers and media have talked down the likely impact
of U.S. trade measures on the world’s second largest economy and
described the Trump administration’s posturing on trade as the product
of an “anxiety disorder”.
The comments from various government advisers came as U.S. President Donald Trump predicted on Sunday that China would make concessions in the face of rising trade tensions, though China has vowed to not back down in any trade war.
The various statements referred to the trade spat between the world’s two largest economies as Washington’s reaction to China’s fast economic growth.
On Monday, a researcher with China’s state planning agency said China’s economy will see little impact from the trade dispute, as the country’s vast domestic market can compensate for any external impact.
Even with the U.S. tariffs, China can still reach its 2018 GDP growth target of around 6.5 percent and the impact on employment will be limited, Wang wrote.
Fan Gang, an influential economist and adviser to China’s central bank, on Sunday flagged the possibility of a U.S. trade war as the U.S. economy faces pressure from China’s rapid development.
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper on Monday described U.S. trade policies as a populist tilt by Trump ahead of the U.S. mid-term elections but that the steps would ultimately end up hurting U.S. households through higher consumer prices.
Focus this week will be on high level comments at the Boao Forum for Asia, an economic conference in Hainan province, with President Xi Jinping and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivering speeches on Tuesday.
Discussion of the trade dispute also touched on the possibility of China leveraging its massive holdings of U.S. government debt, which has been dubbed the “nuclear option”.
Zhang Yuyan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank, said China was unlikely to sell off its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds as a tactic in its trade dispute with the United States.
However, in separate comments, central bank adviser Fan on Monday said China should make better use of its capital reserves by investing in real assets, rather than U.S. debt, reiterating a long-standing call from economists for China to diversify its holdings.
China held around $1.17 trillion (£829.4 billion) of Treasuries as of the end of January, making it the largest of America’s foreign creditors and the No. 2 overall owner of U.S. government bonds after the Federal Reserve.
A Chinese vice finance minister said last week that China is a responsible investor of its foreign exchange reserves and that it follows market rules in investing its reserves.
The comments from various government advisers came as U.S. President Donald Trump predicted on Sunday that China would make concessions in the face of rising trade tensions, though China has vowed to not back down in any trade war.
The various statements referred to the trade spat between the world’s two largest economies as Washington’s reaction to China’s fast economic growth.
On Monday, a researcher with China’s state planning agency said China’s economy will see little impact from the trade dispute, as the country’s vast domestic market can compensate for any external impact.
Even with the U.S. tariffs, China can still reach its 2018 GDP growth target of around 6.5 percent and the impact on employment will be limited, Wang wrote.
Fan Gang, an influential economist and adviser to China’s central bank, on Sunday flagged the possibility of a U.S. trade war as the U.S. economy faces pressure from China’s rapid development.
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper on Monday described U.S. trade policies as a populist tilt by Trump ahead of the U.S. mid-term elections but that the steps would ultimately end up hurting U.S. households through higher consumer prices.
Focus this week will be on high level comments at the Boao Forum for Asia, an economic conference in Hainan province, with President Xi Jinping and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivering speeches on Tuesday.
Discussion of the trade dispute also touched on the possibility of China leveraging its massive holdings of U.S. government debt, which has been dubbed the “nuclear option”.
Zhang Yuyan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank, said China was unlikely to sell off its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds as a tactic in its trade dispute with the United States.
However, in separate comments, central bank adviser Fan on Monday said China should make better use of its capital reserves by investing in real assets, rather than U.S. debt, reiterating a long-standing call from economists for China to diversify its holdings.
China held around $1.17 trillion (£829.4 billion) of Treasuries as of the end of January, making it the largest of America’s foreign creditors and the No. 2 overall owner of U.S. government bonds after the Federal Reserve.
A Chinese vice finance minister said last week that China is a responsible investor of its foreign exchange reserves and that it follows market rules in investing its reserves.
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