RIO is incoherent on China

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Recently I noted how incoherent that BHP has become about China as it celebrated the rise of the Chinese services economy. Now you can add RIO, from the AFR:

“There’s no question that now as we look at the Chinese economy, not everyone is rising on the same tide – we see it more on a sector base,” Rio Tinto non-executive director Megan Clark said at the Bloomberg Summit in Sydney on Wednesday.

“The transition from manufacturing to the services, which has probably been a bit more bumpy than had been heralded by the government, is not the underpinning of infrastructure, which has been good for steel.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.