Taipei-based journo. Ex-China Columnist & Asia Editor of @WSJHeard, heading up @WSJ's econ commentary in Asia. Earlier Dragonomics Beijing, Reuters Shanghai.
Jan 29, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
(1) China's gummed-up monetary policy transmission in 3 charts.
If they can't fix this, outlook for 2019 is pretty bad.
#PBOC cuts to banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) successfully pushes financial system liquidity back higher... (2) ...but shadow banking crackdown means very little of this is making it into real lending, unlike in previous easing cycles