Seemingly the china economy is loosing steam according with the last data about industrial production, vehicles sales and overall consume. All this indicators fallen deep in the last months, and that was not yet a effect created by the commercial tensions with US, because the wall tariffs erected against the china products only will hit fully the exports in the middle of this year. So the slowdown is more a result of the deep internal weakness, mainly the overaccumulation of capital that were since 2009 funded by a vast wave of debt that fuelled bubbles in the whole economy. A crisis in China could produce a range of implications to the global order, since that would trigger a huge devaluation in yuan in order to counter act the output slump, sparking a global deflation that could be disastrous to the monetary stability of the global economy. The markets will get smaller and smaller and hence the competition between capitals and nation will becoming more and more destructive, mounting a perfect condition to war. The present commercial tensions will be a little worry compared to the possibilities of a critical global crisis centered in China.
We should continue to track
We should continue to track this more carefully - see this useful article which highlights some of the immediate contradictions of the Chinese economy even if overly reliant on limited sources of information:
www.wsm.ie/c/next-global-crash-china-and-21st-century-crisis
Up-to-date information on
Up-to-date information on aspects of China here: http://dialectical-delinquents.com/china-2/
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http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/how-worried-should-we-be-if-china-s-growth-rate-slows-to-6-4-percent