Economist Warns China Will Bear Costs of Upcoming Economic Rebalancing

If a ‘great rebalancing’ is coming, will China really have to pay for it?

Michael Pettis says a great rebalancing is coming and China will pay for it. It’s strange how the man who insists that power decides who pays never tests his claim on Washington. The Beijing-based economist has been warning that a great rebalancing is coming since he published a book called The Great Rebalancing. That was in 2013. His latest Foreign Affairs offering? You guessed it: “A Great Rebalancing Is Coming: Who Will Bear the Costs of a Global Trade Adjustment?” It’s the same plot: Toda...

By Alex Lo