Is China still the locomotive of the world economy?

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The Shanghai Stock Exchange, China, February 28, 2020. REUTERS / Aly Song

By: Jean-Pierre Boris Follow

51 min

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged global economies into a severe recession.

Alone or almost, China seems to be able to do its best. However, is the Chinese economy still the locomotive of the world economy?

Question. 

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In three days, the US presidential election takes place, Biden versus Trump, Democrats versus Republicans.

For the past four years, President Trump has made his policy on China one of his main hobbies.

Holding high on the Chinese and the Chinese economy has been one of the pillars of his mandate.

But, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, it looks like China has won the battle and its economy is doing pretty well in this titanic struggle.

Does this impression correspond to reality?

What are the strengths of the Chinese economy today?

What objectives for the five-year plan adopted this week by the plenum of the central committee of the Communist Party?

Is China still the locomotive of the global economy? 

Two guests to answer these questions

:

- Françoise Huang, 

senior economist at

the reinsurer Euler Hermes

.

It covers the Asia-Pacific zone with, of course, special attention to the Chinese economy to which you devote many studies. 

-

Dominique Jolly, 

professor of corporate strategy at the

Webster University of Geneva

where he heads the Walker School of Business and Technology.

Webster University whose main campus is in Saint-Louis in the State of Missouri in the United States. 

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