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Foreign Investment: China is decoupling

Posted April 25, 2008

“This place is one big construction site. You cannot turn around without finding scaffolding, piles of materials, construction equipment and the like [no matter where you look] here.” — Keith Fitz-Gerald

by Mike Caggeso

Baltimore – (TFN): When Asia expert Keith Fitz-Gerald first returned to this country a week ago, he was overwhelmed by a single impression.

“This place is one big construction site,” Fitz-Gerald said. “You cannot turn around without finding scaffolding, piles of materials, construction equipment and the like [no matter where you look] here.”

With the U.S. economy suffering its worst downturn in years, and China’s stocks down more than 40% in the past six months, the bustle of construction-related activity in this Asian giant seems incongruous - if not downright contradictory.

Foreign Investment: China’s economy decoupling

Surprisingly, it’s neither. This divergence between China’s ailing stock market and its still-spunky economy is an early manifestation of “economic decoupling” - an emerging trend being fueled by the globalization of worldwide markets. Read on to learn more.

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