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Ratings oligopoly crashing head-on with china. Between Dodd-Frank and this no wonder Buffett is getting out. It will be a pivotal moment when "developing naitions" (which China still likes to claim) become the standard of truth (state secrets forbidding).
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/09/27/353781/dagong-fires-back/
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You keep your banks while we raise you one:
| Code: | | China’s rules would be stricter than capital requirements announced Sept. 12 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the global financial crisis, and give lenders less time to comply. |
| Quote: | | The capital requirement would cut loan growth to 12 percent to 16 percent, a rate that more closely tracks nominal gross domestic product expansion, from 20 percent now as banks try to avoid triggering the “countercyclical” buffer, Ma and Xu said. China’s banks extended a record $1.4 trillion of new loans in 2009, fueling asset bubbles and concerns about bad debts. |
Of course Tier 1 targets of 8 percent is where it "naturally" wanted to be.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-16/china-s-stricter-bank-capital-rules-to-restrict-loan-growth-goldman-says.html
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Pride meets protectionism.....a trend since the Deng "shareholder"=communism epiphany:
| Quote: | | .... Those policies include a bid to reserve government procurement contracts for companies that have Chinese intellectual property or trademarks. That directive, which has not been implemented, is part of a plan to promote "indigenous innovation" among domestic companies. |
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-business23-2010mar23,0,5835113.story
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This they believe:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05dea378-f895-11de-beb8-00144feab49a.html
The west’s preaching to the east must stop
| Quote: | By Ronnie Chan
Published: January 3 2010 19:34 | Last updated: January 3 2010 19:34
While the world debates the future of its financial system, global rebalancing or even power shifts along five dimensions are quietly taking place. Their implications are profound and may well lead to a more stable world.
The first is a rebalancing of moral authority. The system that the west touted as superior has failed. Why should developing countries blindly follow its model now? Remember the moral high ground that western leaders took during the Asian financial crisis? Hong Kong was bashed when its government intervened in August 1998 in the stock market to fend off the western investment banks and hedge funds bent on destroying the city’s currency.
Yet only a month later, the US government intervened in the market to bail out Long-Term Capital Management, a move that proved to be the harbinger of the western bail-outs of financial institutions in the past year. Hong Kong’s government was not allowed to save its citizens, yet by a double-standard the US could save its companies.
The waning of the west’s moral authority is also due to the many conflicts of interest inherent in investment banking as it is currently structured. The west turned a blind eye to them. What can developing economies do? Nothing, for the wealthy countries dictated the rules of the game, which became a licence to misbehave.
The moral superiority of the west was also expressed through its ideology. China was barred from being a member of the Group of Eight leading nations, presumably owing to its lack of western-style democracy. Now some in America are advocating a G2 with only the US and China. If the focus shifts to the G2 to make decisions, then what happens to democracy? The west has a moral dilemma.
So which region will now occupy the moral high ground? Certainly not the developing east, for its social institutions are pathetic. But given the moral retreat of the west, the two sides are now on an equal footing. The preaching by the west must stop.
The second rebalancing has to do with decision-making in global economic affairs. The west can no longer dominate, given its partial loss of moral authority. For the first time in centuries, the developing east has some say. Global economic power will be more diffused. Symbolic of this new reality is the minor adjustment in voting rights in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Before 1800 the east dominated the world economically – China and India together accounted for 50 per cent of global gross domestic product. Then the west surged ahead. The world has never seen a time of relative balance between east and west. That time is approaching as global influence follows wealth accumulation.
The third is the shift in the centre of economic gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The earlier rise of Japan alone was insufficient to achieve this. China’s size and growth momentum finally shifted the balance. The financial crisis hastened this shift as China performed better than other countries. It was hurt less and its government responded more decisively. Now China is the biggest holder of US government debt ; it has the world’s largest foreign reserves; its economy ranks third globally; it exports more than all countries except Germany and three of the world’s five biggest banks are Chinese. Although the 21st century may not be the Asian century, it will centre on the Pacific.
The fourth rebalancing is the movement away from a total dependence on the US dollar as the global trading currency. The dollar will remain by far the dominant international reserve currency for decades. However, America’s apparent financial irresponsibility worries many investors. Consequently, certain trades will increasingly be conducted in bilateral currencies. Over time some countries will keep more renminbi, making it more like a reserve currency.
The last shift is hardly acknowledged: most developed economies, with the exception of the US, will move from seeking ever higher growth to trying to maintain it. The crisis shows that blindly seeking growth is dangerous. For many wealthy countries, it is also unrealistic. Take Japan. By 2025, it will have shrunk from 127m people to 120m. A similar situation exists across the European Union. Given those population declines, just maintaining the same level of GDP will be an achievement. Short of massive immigration, which is unlikely, growth can only come from technological breakthroughs and deregulation. Again looking at Japan, it is already a world leader in the former but could do more to deregulate, for example, by introducing housing reform. But even that would hardly be sufficient to sustain overall growth. That economies should expand continually is a legacy of the post second world war era. We need a new paradigm to assess our economy.
These five shifts are for the most part desirable. They bring about a more balanced and stable world. The west must acclimatise to the new global reality – it will not be as dominant as it was in the past. Then together we should ask the question: how can we make this new world order better and safer?
The writer is chairman of Hang Lung Properties, Hong Kong |
I'll stick with Olympics call.
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"Surpassing" the West:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/utopia/
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China's bill auction fails (US hasn't...yet) while G8 contingent packs it up for Xinjiang.
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The "G-2":
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13326106&source=hptextfeature
| Quote: | Reds under the bed
Before panic spreads, it is worth noting that China’s new assertiveness reflects weakness as well as strength. This remains a poor country facing, in Mr Wen’s words, its most difficult year of the new century. The latest wild guess at how many jobs have already been lost—20m—hints at the scale of the problem. The World Bank has cut its forecast for China’s growth this year to 6.5%. That is robust compared with almost anywhere else, but to many Chinese, used to double-digit rates, it will feel like a recession. Already there are tens of thousands of protests each year: from those robbed of their land for development; from laid-off workers; from those suffering the side-effects of environmental despoliation. Even if China magically achieves its official 8% target, the grievances will worsen.
Far from oozing self-confidence, China is witnessing a fierce debate both about its economic system and the sort of great power it wants to be—and it is a debate the government does not like. |
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