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India - China: Relations And Developments
<b>ARE WE GETTING AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF CHINA</b>? -Guest Column by Hari Sud
I agree with Hari Sud. Its all hype and coverup. West is waiting for sudden collaspse of Chinese economy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>What goes Wrong When the Statistics are Created</b>
According to Florence Chan, the statistics making in China is a five-grade affair. It begins in the village, moves to the city, onwards to the province and then to the country and then to the State Committee. At each level, data is fudged or rounded upwards to look good. Remember, China is still a Communist country; any failure is punishable. Hence everybody has to report good statistics. Interesting feature of data generation is that if the state or central committee sets up a target of 8% growth or increase, the village level or the city level must report a percentage or two higher. Lower or equal report will not look good. The national level data gathering bureaucrats are fully aware of this fudging. They are under the same pressure as state or city level; hence faithfully use the modern techniques of computers and analysis to report the faulty data. The latter becomes a gospel in the West.

<b>What do Smart people in the West rely upon?</b>
Window dressing by the Chinese has turned many of the China watchers off. They immediately take a percentage or two out of the reported statistics or rely upon their own devices to reach their own conclusions. Professor Rawski uses secondary sources to reach his own conclusions. These include airline occupancy rate, little known Chinese trade journals (not directly connected to the great official statistics-gathering machine in Peking), or other means like true investments in China (UNTAD data), import statistics not from China but from the exporting country, eliminating double accounting at city, state or village level or simply checking whether they have reported in metric tones or other weight measures. Each of these will have a dramatic impact on the net GDP calculated. Impact of all these corrections will lower the Chinese GDP over twenty years by well over 20 to 30%. This re-calculation will be a great blow to the Chinese elite now ruling and the country. It will bring the sky rocketing prestige of China’s economic progress to a more earthly level. If you take 20% off the $1.3 Trillion Chinese GDP reported it would be about a Trillion dollar and <b>Chinese per capita income at about $800. That is a more realistic number (comparable statistics for India are: GDP of $690 Billion and a per capita income of about $690).</b>
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