I read the thread. I read the comments.

What did I read?

Well, that there is no transparency in Chinese economics and of course we know obama has shut down any transparency in this country with the help of Goldman Sachs, The Fed & Treasury.
In other words the man & woman on the street really don’t have the foggiest idea what’s what in global economics. The “experts” don’t really know either. So we seem to be back at the Melian dialogue, where Thucydides stated.

“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept”