Many economists expect China's inflation to cool in the second half of the year as world oil prices ease.
Economists would expect that China's huge trade surpluses with the U.S. must sooner or later cancel themselves out.
Some economists therefore worry that China's trade surpluses will soon reappear.
Some economists reckon that next year China's exports may see no growth (in dollar terms) for the first time in more than 25 years.
In a report for Rio Tinto and the Australian National University, Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, two economists, argue that by 2020 China's demand for metals may increase by the equivalent of the industrial world's annual total demand now.
But economists are anxious about the balance of China's economy as much as its speed.
That scenario is not the case in China, according to over a dozen Asian and U.S. fund managers and economists interviewed by Forbes over the last several months.
The announcement, which you can read in English here, means the end of nearly two years of fixing the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar, a move that most economists, including many in China, believe is on balance good for both the world and China in the long run.
Many economists reckon it is likely to be closer to 6%, while China's slows to 8%.
Economists argue that one reason why India's economy can grow faster than that of China in the near future is simply on account of what statisticians describe as a "base effect".
The Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1% to 2349.59 as investors considered the implications of China's consumer price index for January, up 4.5% from a year earlier, well above economists' median forecast for a 4.1% rise.
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