China’s Narrowing Policy Horizons
China's economic revival since the third quarter of 2012 should come as no surprise: as long as the government has room to wield expansionary monetary and/or fiscal policy, faster growth is always only a matter of time. But China's rapidly rising money supply and weakening fiscal position now threaten to change that for good.
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BEIJING – Back in the last quarter of 2011, when the decline in China’s investment growth accelerated, concerns about a hard economic landing intensified, particularly given the authorities’ reluctance to pursue new expansionary policies. By May 2012, however, the government had changed its mind, with the National Development and Reform Commission approving ¥7 trillion ($1.3 trillion) in new projects. That, together with two ensuing interest-rate cuts by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), guaranteed an end to the economic slowdown in the third quarter of 2012.