China's Economy Resilient to Iran War Shocks, Says Economist

China’s economy big enough to absorb Iran war shocks, says Justin Lin

China has sufficient capacity to absorb external shocks from the Iran war and meet its annual economic growth target, a prominent economist said, while adding it was also preparing for the possibility that Washington might renege on trade deals. Justin Lin Yifu, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University and a former chief economist at the World Bank, said on Thursday that no country could be spared from the economic impacts of the conflict in the Middle East, whic...

By Ji Siqi