Comments on: If The US Economy Goes Down, So Does China’s

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By: Chinamatt

Chinamatt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:01:21 +0000

Not sure I see the economy as pessimistically as this, but I do agree that China will get hurt by America's economic recession. The domestic market is ready to buy products made in China, but it prefers foreign products as a public show of face (made-in-China also lacks the quality of advertising that foreign companies have). I definitely agree with the rich-poor divide and the housing prices--these have been problems and they will continue to be. Chinese businesses need to stop relying so heavily on exports. Chinamatts last blog post..Fujian Field Notes

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By: trevelyan

trevelyan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:37 +0000

The employment situation for university graduates has been pretty dour for a few years now, signs that the “fat times” weren’t very fat for most. I remember working with recent graduates in Shanghai who were earning 2000 RMB a month, a figure that scared me since I couldn’t picture anyone managing to survive in the city for so little cash.

I’m not as negative about you on the China front. My sense is that this is less about subprime and housing and more about the deflation of the derivatives markets with a flight to perceived safety. Devaluations in equity markets are destroying the (paper) asset base of most large and debt-financed organizations. The US is in real trouble, and the chattering class is chattering because we’re going to see a reduction in high paying white collar jobs.

China is in exactly the opposite situation. Sure the country will have trouble with its export sector, but those aren’t high paying jobs and domestic consumption is strong enough to pull those workers into other positions. The economy will continue to grow faster than most other regions, while China’s relative capital strength and inflation will keep work going.

Frankly, it’s a great time to be doing business in China. Yes, people who don’t have the language skills will find it a lot harder to find good work, but those jobs are mostly with large international conglomerates and the organizations servicing them. The demand for bilingual professionals is dominant in the small and mid-sized market, where growth is continuing and organizations are much less leveraged.