senheiser
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The way the Renminbi has depreciated over the past month (2.94% depreciation), the Chinese economy would be smaller this year than it was last year in US Dollar terms. The depreciation over the past month has wiped out all the appreciation of last year. That's big.
The only way for Chinese economy to surpass the US economy is by having a stronger Renminbi.
Chinese economy is in big trouble right now with a massive 6 year credit boom (Since 2008) coming to an end and the growth rate indicators doing very poorly. Non-Performing Loans (NPL) are rising for banks and many private businesses are defaulting on their bonds. Property market is cooling rapidly with home prices down AND sales down. This property cooling is causing trouble for banks as many of their loan portfolio is property or property-related such as glass industry, steel industry, furniture industry, aluminium industry, etc.
Property is the core for the Chinese economy as it drives many other large GDP contributing industries like steel, aluminium, copper, iron ore, glass, furniture, automobile, etc. So when property sales fall, other industries suffer.
The other problem is massive overcapacity in many industries (especially state-owned) which means they have to cut back the supply which will further hurt GDP growth.
As all these industries are suffering, the Chinese financial system will come under severe stress as companies cannot pay back their loans as demand wanes. This will cause problems in the banking system and bond yields will rise.
This is why the borrowing rates have gone up which causes more problems for small & medium sized companies as their borrowing costs are getting higher.
All these higher borrowing costs in Renminbi are causing Chinese banks and companies to issue bonds in US dollars (lower borrowing rates) instead of Renminbi (higher borrowing rates). This lack of demand for Renminbi is causing the Renminbi exchange rate to depreciate.
I've never believed in the 'China collapse theory' but you got to be realistic and see the Chinese economy has some big problems to deal with.
Only solution is to accelerate the major economic reform announced during the 3rd Plenum by giving more power to the markets.
only solution is making the remnimbi convertible and decreasing interests rates, Chinese interests rates are at 6% despite inflation only being 2%