Fraud and scandals have been dragging real estate and commodities down in Northeaster Qingdao, with real estate prices dropping up to 30 percent. Financial analyst Sara Hsu sees it as a potential scenario for shadow banking in more parts of China, she writes in the Diplomat.Read More →
Dire predictions for the trust industry have not materialized, because of smart interventions by China´s financial authorities. But that does not mean the industry is off the hook, writes financial analyst Sara Hsu in The Diplomat. Danger from the property market will remain till the end of 2014.Read More →
China´s list of environmental problems is mind-boggling, but the water pollution might be the worst, writes urbanization expert Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. For many pollution induced cancer is coming too close, time is running out.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu reviews for the Diplomat the book by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and the debate on state socialism and capitalism. For China´s economy there is a third road, she argues.Read More →
China is about to start regulating its financial jungle of wealth management products, one of the causes of its giant shadow banking system. Time to protect the consumers against those risky products, writes financial analyst Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. An overview of the regulationsRead More →
Liberalization of the interest rates is a first important step in financial reforms, but it is not enough, tells financial analyst Sara Hsu in the EastAsiaForum. Next the state needs to let the state banks go.Read More →
Whether China property bubble is popping, or more slowly evaporating, the effects on its economy will be enormous. Financial analyst Sara Hsu lists three of the most important effects for The Diplomat. She predicts no crash, but very serious effects indeed.Read More →
Typically China´s economic challenge is seen as moving from manufacturing to domestic consumption and services. Financial analysts Sara Hsu looks at the experience in Japan and the US and wonders in the Diplomat whether that is a smart move.Read More →
Financial analysts Sara Hsu has been predicting doomsday scenario´s for China´s financial stability in the past. But the announced financial reforms have made her carefully optimistic about the direction the country is taking, she writes in the China Brief.Read More →
China´s financial authorities try to fight illegal fundraising, as one of the features of shadow banking. Financial analyst Sara Hsu give in The Diplomat an overview of this tradition, that has boomed with the country´s economic growth.Read More →
Shadow banking was one of those China issues that kept financial people awake at night. But after a decade of studying shadow banking, Sara Hsu argues in Triple Crisis that the issue has been cut up in manageable parts, and will fade away by 2015. Read More →
China´s urbanites are expected to growth with a few hundred million over the coming yers. But can cities grow in a sustainable way, wonders urbanization expert Sara Hsu in The Diplomat. There is room for both doubt and for hope, she writes.Read More →