OPINION

Concerns about a China hard landing way overblown

News, Stephen S Roach, Published on 31/08/2012

» Concern is growing that China's economy could be headed for a hard landing. The Chinese stock market has fallen 20% over the past year, to levels last seen in 2009. Continued softness in recent data _ from purchasing managers' sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports _ has heightened the anxiety. Long the global economy's most powerful engine, China, many now fear, is running out of fuel.