China defends economic doom model

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China is not signalling imminent breakout stimulus. Bloomberg.

China’s trade with the world is within reasonable bounds and the nation isn’t out to dominate global markets, a senior official said, pointing to figures showing domestic consumption is driving economic growth.

“Most of China’s production is intended to meet domestic demand,” Vice Finance Minister Liao Min said in an interview Friday near Durban, South Africa, where he was attending a gathering of Group of 20 policymakers. “When there’s demand from abroad, China exports accordingly. This does not mean, however, that China is trying to dominate every market.”

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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.