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...Shen last month said he was stepping down “to focus on my other interests and engagements”....
...“Policymaking has been a constant trade-off between the pace of growth and the quality of growth,” notes Haibin Zhu of JPMorgan....
...“Since 2003, everyone knows China’s policy towards North Korea has not succeeded,” says Mr Shen....
...“China pressure looks like the number one potential risk right now,” said Robin Zhu, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Bernstein, speaking of the challenge for the VW brand in the country....
...It shows that after the 19th party congress, the new leadership is still committed to financial liberalisation and opening up,” said Jianguang Shen, chief economist at Mizuho Securities Asia in Hong Kong...
...But Mr Guo is an accomplished technocrat and protégé of former premier Zhu Rongji, who has led the party’s charge against financial risk this year....
...“When SOEs follow government instructions on business decisions, it can set back SOE reform,” notes Jianguang Shen of Mizuho....
...For instance, the yen was included in the SDR basket in 1973, but Japan liberalised international capital flows only in 1980,” says Mr Zhu....
...Jianguang Shen, chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities, said: Deflationary risk allows for more drastic monetary easing, as real interest rates atn the current level are too high to support economic...
...Our students are not as good as theirs . . . so we have to create our own strengths,” Mr Shen says....
...Zhu Haibin, China chief economist at JPMorgan sees further monetary easing in the first half of this year against a backdrop of growth concerns and disinflationary pressures....
...Shen Jianguang, chief economist at Mizuho Securities, sees a less broad-based easing, but is emphatic in his prediction. He wrote in a report: We expect an RRR cut to follow in December....
...If you don’t have a small group pushing reforms forward, then you have too many interests holding them up,” said Shen Jianguang, an economist with Mizuho Securities....
...Shen Hongguo, an associate law professor at China’s Northwest University of Politics and Law, says it is impossible to use the law to keep up affection....
...Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi in Beijing, Li Wan in Longmen and Julie Zhu in Hong Kong...
...“The most basic change is the growth of civil society,” says Shen Hongguo, a professor at Northwest University of Politics and Law, and another signatory of the scholars’ reform appeal....
...It leaves room for luxury consumption, which has triggered a growing public outcry,” said Zhu Lijia, of the Chinese Academy of Governance. “But prohibiting drinking Moutai cannot solve the problem.”...
...Zhu Feng, an academic at Peking University, calls the establishment of Chinese bases overseas a “suicidal idea” that will only galvanise opposition to China’s rise....
...Zhu Feng, of Peking University, says that the oil companies have “hijacked” the country’s foreign policy on Sudan. “Chinese oil companies and a lot of other oil companies in Sudan have made the money....
...The Chinese government assured Mr Rumsfeld in October that Gen Zhu was speaking in a private capacity....
...Says Prof Zhu: ?Since the end of the second world war, there hasn?...
...“What he talked about were just his personal views,” said Shen Guofang, an assistant minister of foreign affairs....
...Mr Shen describes US-China ties as a “non-hostile, non-friendlyrelationship”....
..."This is really hot right now," says Zhu Peifen, head of the Hi-Tech Industry Development Division for the Beijing city government. "The Indian software sector can be a good teacher for us."...
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