China is heavily invested in the United States, and is nervous about what has been happening on Wall Street. Here are some excerpts from: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSPEK4365020080917?sp=true
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Threatened by a “financial tsunami,” the world must consider building a financial order no longer dependent on the United States, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Its pronouncements do not necessarily directly reflect leadership views, but this commentary by a professor at Shanghai’s Tongji University suggested considerable official alarm at the strains buckling world financial markets.
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“The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States.”
But Vice Premier Wang Qishan, on a visit to the United States, told U.S. trade officials in a meeting on Tuesday that China and the United States needed to maintain close economic ties with global markets going through such turbulence.
“The Chinese government is well aware of the fact that the United States, which is the world’s largest developed country, and China, which is the world’s largest developing country, should have constructive and cooperative economic and trade relations,” he said.
China is a major buyer of U.S. Treasury bonds, and through its sovereign wealth fund it has taken stakes in two large U.S. financial institutions.
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Read more at http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSPEK4365020080917?sp=true
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