Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

@Brad_Setser Now add China's role as "great assembler", with value-added in exports really coming from elsewhere; famous case of iPhone. Much less true than it used to be, but still means that Chinese surplus is partly optical illusion 5/ https://t.co/EItNaT1Q92 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brad_Setser Adding HK reduces the export imbalance to "only" 3.5 to 1. Now macro: the US runs overall trade deficit, with imports 1.5 times exports. China runs overall surplus, with imports only 0.8 exports. On some sort of gravity-ish story, this suggests ratio "should" be around 2 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brad_Setser Lastly, China imports a lot of oil, which means other things equal needs to run a surplus on everythin… https://t.co/A6qlar5Qaa — PolitiTweet.org

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