The PRC and the US: If the Twin Bubble Splits, Which Will Burst First?

摘要

Analyst and long-time China-watcher Ian Adie takes a skeptical view of the durability of the US-PRC strategic economic marriage, and, indeed, of the strength of the supposed PRC economic recovery.rnSome analysts look to the People's Republic of China's consumers to pull the global economy out of its present difficulties. Others say that the PRC just imports raw materials, and how could it be expected to replace the United States as the key stimulus for the global economy? In any event, the famed interdependence (or marriage) of "Chimerica" was always a chimera, and divorce looms.