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Has it really slowed, or just been putting out shady statistics for a while that show growth that isn't there?
by barrow-rider 8y ago
Has it really slowed, or just been putting out shady statistics for a while that show growth that isn't there?
- volkl48 8y agoThe article points to less easily faked data to indicate the slowdown, not the official statistics that are widely known to have a tenuous relationship with reality.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoAlso known as the Li Keqian index. Too bad he has been marginalized by Xi.
- coldtea 8y ago>are widely known to have a tenuous relationship with reality So, like the New York Times?
- babygoat 8y agocitation needed
- coldtea 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller and inversely: https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-times-wants-gary-webb-stay-dead/ https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-times-wants-gary-...
- Latteland 8y agothey sure screwed up during the iraq war. that's a big notable exception to their general excellence at writing about and discovering important and accurate things.
- onlyrealcuzzo 8y agoLook -- I'm as skeptical of the Chinese miracle as anyone. But serious question: if the data was really as fake as everyone says, wouldn't the official and unofficial exchange rate of the Yuan be a lot larger? If the Chinese are basically pretending the economy has grown 500% and it's only grown 100%, wouldn't the value of the Yuan prove it?
- tanilama 8y agoYuan is a controlled currency
- brobinson 8y agoThe value of the yuan to what, the US dollar? It's pegged and maintained there using foreign currency reserves. It's occasionally adjusted so I guess it could be considered a "dirty float" if you want to stretch that definition a bit. Also: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/new-study-shines-light-literally-on-chinas-and-russias-fake-gdp-data/ https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/new-study-shin...
- landryraccoon 8y agoYou can fake stats sure, but can you fake the fact that everything sold in an Apple store and half the stuff on Amazon or Walmart is made in China now?
- sct202 8y agoPlus we have a pretty good gauge of trillions of $ of stuff that goes into China and trillions of $ of stuff that comes out that is not the same. Like really people, China is probably faking some stats, but they're clearly rich and making a ton of money and stuff.
- jjeaff 8y agoYou say that as if manufacturing product for someone else was a highly profitable business. There is a reason more and more has gone overseas. The margins are vanishingly small and continuing to drop.