Andy Xie
Andy Xie
Andy Xieis an independent economist based in Shanghai, and the former Morgan Stanley star chief Asia-Pacific economist famous for his contrarian and provocative views. He left Morgan Stanley abruptly in October 2006 when an internal email that he penned was leaked. He derided Singapore as a money laundering centre for Indonesia, and the ASEAN group of nations as a failure...
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What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.
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When two countries agree to work together, there's no need to pin down details at the highest level. It's different between China and the United States... because it's difficult for these two countries to work together.
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China's education system is a no man's land. Schools have too much autonomy, they receive government funding, but they are not monitored.
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Taiwan-China relations will be peaceful for a long time to come,
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I think that the soft or hard landing debate is misleading. Financial markets usually have hard landings regardless of how an economy lands.
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Chinese tourism was the factor that kept Hong Kong from recession,
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In the end, this sort of protectionism doesn't help you. You never stop this sort of thing.
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There's no question that oil is the strongest headwind for growth now. This is a very delicate moment, no doubt about it.
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I believe that the current dollar adjustment is cyclical.
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There will be more coming. There will be measures on land supply, since that's very vital to this tightening.
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China competitiveness is generating a positive sum game in the region for now.
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I experienced the effect firsthand on my return flight from London to Hong Kong last weekend. There were three passengers in my cabin -- a 10 percent occupancy rate at best. Hong Kong's restaurants are mostly empty. It is difficult to enjoy a meal with masked waiters tiptoeing around in silence. If you want to frighten people in Hong Kong, just sneeze.
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Korea's consumption growth is currently very much dependent on sentiment and unanticipated wealth gains, leading to concerns about the sustainability of consumption recovery.
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If only the world remains wedded to free trade, there seems to be nothing to prevent China's export juggernaut from continuing to rumble on.