#2 How the Chinese stock market ruined my vacation

10/08/16 • 26 min

In June 2015 Chinese stock market has entered in a period of strong volatility triggering concerns in China and worldwide. After a year of strong increase, the market crashed two times in six months. I was about to take a week of vacation when all that began... We will answer in this episode of China Economy Podcast the following questions: 1) What was going on this summer? 2) What has triggered the market crash? 3) Why on the first trading day of 2016 did the market crash a second time? 4) What is the impact of the market crash on Chinese economy and on world economy?

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#3 Mr Trump, is China a currency manipulator?

You’ve probably noticed that during the first US presidential debate, besides “China” you can quite often hear the world “currency manipulator”. Indeed, besides claiming that China was ”stealing US jobs”, Donald Trump’s condemns China as a currency manipulator. Well is China a currency manipulator? Let’s find out. In this episode of China Economy Podcast we will answer the following questions: 1) What is a currency manipulator? And what does that imply for the US and China? 2) How did the Chinese foreign exchange regime evolve during past decades? 3) What is the Chinese foreign exchange regime today? 4) Let’s fact check and answer to Donald Trump’s claim, is China a currency manipulator? Visualize data