Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters
Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters
Anthony Rowley
Opinion

Opinion

Macroscope by Anthony Rowley

Coronavirus or not, the world’s economy remains deeply troubled – and China is the hope, not the cause

  • The world should be offering China help, not criticism, because a global economy long weakened by trade wars, protectionism and credit-fuelled debt is in desperate need of continued Chinese growth

Anthony Rowley
Anthony Rowley

Updated: 3:00am, 24 Feb, 2020

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Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters
Workers prepare to sanitise a railway station in Yunnan, China, on February 4. China cannot rid the world economy of its underlying malaise. Photo: Reuters
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Anthony Rowley

Anthony Rowley

Anthony Rowley is a veteran journalist specialising in Asian economic and financial affairs. He was formerly Business Editor and International Finance Editor of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review and worked earlier on The Times newspaper in London