Over the Cliff We Go
Forget about the 2.9 percent fall in China's exports in December compared with a year ago. The statistic that should really shock is the fall in China's imports – a mammoth 23 percent last month to $72 billion, pushing its trade surplus to $39 billion.
The data tell several different but interlocking stories. The first is that China's exports are about t…
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