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Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
GDP growth of over 6% for 2021. Chinese premier Li Kequiang announced this target growth rate at the opening of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5. Many a time, China's annual economic growth ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
China's cruel to be kind policy continues to pay dividends. Criticised and condemned they may be, but the swift and continued improvement in the economy prove that the Politburo's draconian restriction and lockdown measures implemented at the ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
"We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream..." - The Seekers Yes Virginia, we, Australians all, are one in anticipating Christmas to come on October 6 this year - the day when most expect the Reserve ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... earlier, warning bilateral trade relations could suffer if Australia did not stop its call for a COVID-19 inquiry. The Middle Kingdom strikes back. China is now walking its talk. This has prompted fears among Australian dairy producers that they could ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... Beijing that, in turn, would lead into a price/currency war. In addition, cheaper Chines exports mean that the Middle Kingdom would once again be exporting deflationary pressure into the global economy. Sure, it was welcomed back in the late-1990's ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... economy appears to be heading there. Being Australia's biggest export market, what happens in the economy of the Middle Kingdom will flow through into ours. Austrade data shows we shipped 29.6% of our total exports to China in FY 2016/17. In turn ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
The Middle Kingdom's supremo, Chinese President Xi Jinpeng, sent equity markets on the up and up. Instead of talking tough and raising the ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... swift but modest. It announced just US$3 billion worth of US imports into Beijing, although media reports noted the Middle Kingdom is merely keeping its powder dry to give it more room to escalate the war on trade and/or give it scope for an expected ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Timely or well-timed but the release of China's trade balance just as US President Trump lands in the Middle Kingdom should help partly assuage Donald's displeasure with the US-China trade imbalance. China's trade surplus contracted sharply to US$38.2 ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Party of China - 18 - 24 October - indicates there will be more of the same. That is, onwards and upwards for the Middle Kingdom. In his opening address, President Xi Jinping reminded his audience of his "Chinese Dream" - the "great rejuvenation of the ...
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