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China's economy is in bad shape and could stay that way for a while

Not in the same league, China grows one India in GDP every year.

Every year? That's just due to special circumstances from Covid rebound and RMB appreciating almost 10% in 2021 against the USD. The RMB has depreciated almost 10% against the USD this year. Are you going to argue that China is shrinking half the size of India every year and extrapolate?

The more appropriate way of calculating would be to first measure the increase in RMB terms and convert it to USD terms, rather than measuring the economy in USD terms and take the difference. Both are technically not wrong, but the former would be more appropriate as it is less subjected to exchange rate fluctuations.
 
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That's just due to special circumstances from Covid rebound and RMB appreciating almost 10% in 2021 against the USD. The RMB has depreciated almost 10% against the USD this year. Are you going to argue that China is shrinking half the size of India every year and extrapolate?

The more appropriate way of calculating would be to first measure the increase in RMB terms and convert it to USD terms, rather than measuring the economy in USD terms and take the difference. Both are technically not wrong, but the former would be more appropriate as it is less subjected to exchange rate fluctuations.
Indian currency depreciates more than RMB, so half the size won't happen.

 
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Indian currency depreciates more than RMB, so half the size won't happen.


Most currencies are depreciating against the USD this year, it doesn't mean the global economy is shrinking.

Let's ignore the USD and take direct RMB/Rupee conversion instead.

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China grew about RMB1tril in the latest quarter compared to a year earlier.

That's around Rs11.5tril going by current exchange rate.

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India's GDP in the latest quarter is around Rs65tril.

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Rs11.5tril / Rs65tril * 100% = ~17.6%.

So it's more like China has added ~1/5 the size of India in the latest quarter.

To be fair, China took a hard hit in their latest quarter due to their zero-covid policies. Otherwise China could probably add ~1/2 the size of India. But definitely not adding the full size of India every year. India has a GDP of >USD3tril. If China can consistently add an entire India's GDP every year, China would surpass the US in 2 or 3 years time.
 
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Most currencies are depreciating against the USD this year, it doesn't mean the global economy is shrinking.

Let's ignore the USD and take direct RMB/Rupee conversion instead.

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China grew about RMB1tril in the latest quarter compared to a year earlier.

That's around Rs11.5tril going by current exchange rate.

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India's GDP in the latest quarter is around Rs65tril.

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Rs11.5tril / Rs65tril * 100% = ~17.6%.

So it's more like China is added ~1/5 the size of India in the latest quarter.

To be fair, China took a hard hit in their latest quarter due to their zero-covid policies. Otherwise China could probably add ~1/2 the size of India. But definitely not adding the full size of India every year. India has a GDP of >USD3tril. If China can consistently add an entire India's GDP every year, China would surpass the US in 2 or 3 years time.
We based GDP on the exchange rate of the same year, you can go back years to revise the GDPs numbers on today's exchange rate.
 
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At least China's economy is still growing, unlike US, keep shrinking..


That's QoQ growth. If they measure by YoY, which China usually adopts, the US grew at 1.7% in Q2.


China's QoQ growth is also negative btw.

Table 1: YoY, Table 2: QoQ
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That's QoQ growth. If they measure by YoY, which China usually adopts, the US grew at 1.7% in Q2.

China's QoQ growth is also negative btw.

Table 1: YoY, Table 2: QoQ
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China indeed grew over one India in GDP last year, as for if China can pull this trick every year or not, we'll see in the future.
Buy the way, US economcy is being artificially hyped by its super high inflation, so I agree that dollar based GDP becomes more and more meaningless now

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China indeed grew over one India in GDP last year
India’s current gdp is USD 3.2 trillion.

At least China's economy is still growing
No you're not

"Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 2.6% in the three months to the end of June"

@Mista
 
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India’s current gdp is USD 3.2 trillion.
I m talking China grew more than one India last year, as for this year, we'll still wait and see. The point is India's economy is just a small faction of China, two countries are not in the same league by any standard, so your foolhardy comparison is extremely funny.
 
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China's immediate problems:

- Zero COVID policy choking domestic investment and consumption
- Real estate bubble
- Xi's bid for power utilizing censorship and cult of personality causing discontent

China's long term problems:

- Aging and declining population
- Wealth inequality
 
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China's immediate problems:

- Zero COVID policy choking domestic investment and consumption
- Real estate bubble
- Xi's bid for power utilizing censorship and cult of personality causing discontent

China's long term problems:

- Aging and declining population
- Wealth inequality
I don't see the immediate problems as problems. As for the long term problems, USA also has same problems. I know you will say US doesn't have declining population problem because it has immigrants. That's another problem China doesn't have. The grand remplacement
 
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I don't see the immediate problems as problems. As for the long term problems, USA also has same problems. I know you will say US doesn't have declining population problem because it has immigrants. That's another problem China doesn't have. The grand remplacement
I love your approach. Deny problems are problems, then problems solved. China's economy is grinding to a halt thanks to real estate crisis and zero COVID policy, and newly graduated university students have an unemployment rate of 20%. That's not to mention underemployment. Sure, pretend everything is fine and keep chanting party slogans.

China's birth rate is abysmal compared to US. CPC held on to the dumb one child policy for an entire decade longer than it should have, just like they're holding on to zero COVID.

China - 1.16 in 2021
US - 1.66 in 2011
 
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I love your approach. Deny problems are problems, then problems solved. China's economy is grinding to a halt thanks to real estate crisis and zero COVID policy, and newly graduated university students have an unemployment rate of 20%. That's not to mention underemployment. Sure, pretend everything is fine and keep chanting party slogans.

China's birth rate is abysmal compared to US. CPC held on to the dumb one child policy for an entire decade longer than it should have, just like they're holding on to zero COVID.

China - 1.16 in 2021
US - 1.66 in 2011
I support zero covid policy. We are in a WORLD wide recession and pandemic. All problems China has, other countries also have them. If other countries perform worse than China, it's also a win for China. I know US has a better fertility rate. But the white race fertility rate is not better than China's
 
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