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China can leverage her status as the world's largest consumer now that the US is not.

China is a midget compared to the US and Europe. And need I remind you that it was Europe, not the US, that was the locomotive of the world economy over the years leading to 2007?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon May 25th, 2009 at 08:41:14 AM EST
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Wasn't it you who put up a diary in which you showed a graph of China's overwhelming hunger for concrete?

Your graph in that earlier diary was on growth. What's the situation in absolute dollars - or any currency you choose?

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Mon May 25th, 2009 at 08:54:29 AM EST
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Chine does dominate demand for some specific sub-sectors (concrete, cranes, iron ore) linked to their heavy focus on heavy-industry buildup and infrastructure construction.

But otherwise, their share of world demand is still pretty low.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon May 25th, 2009 at 09:02:38 AM EST
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As my first ET chart will illustrate:

GDP PPP in USD 2008 est.

China is not even close to being the world's leading consumer, but hardly a midget, and with lots more upside than either the EU or the US.

Source: CIA World Factbook.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Mon May 25th, 2009 at 09:19:59 PM EST
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