Alex Frangos and Eric Bellman, China Slump Ripples Globally; Slowed growth realigns industries and economies as Beijing switches strategies. Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2013 (front-page top article). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 05522275124956.html
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“China's second-quarter gross domestic product released early Monday [today, July 5]showed the economy expanded 7.5% from the year earlier * * * That matches the government's full-year growth target of 7.5%, a rate that would make this year the slowest since 1990.
“‘The truth is that the China resources boom is over,’ Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, said Thursday in a speech.
My comment: It is not as if sky, or China, will collapse tomorrow. I always believe China’s economy is not as good as Beijing makes it out to be, but as bad (or good, depending on media) as the media portrays. No other nation can replace China as, say, assemblers of electronics, sneakers/shoes or clothing.