Good MornING Asia - 14 May 2018

Once again, the US President has shown willing to soften his tone after an aggressive start - this time over Chinese telecom producer, ZTE

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Opinion

By Robert Carnell

The Trump pattern re-emerges

Once again, the US President has shown willing to soften his tone after an aggressive start - this time over Chinese telecom producer, ZTE

China

China to speed up “Made in China 2025” plan

Possible collapse of trade talks is likely to increase uncertainty for Chinese production. But we've kept our GDP growth forecasts unchanged as we…

China: Upbeat on activity data

We are optimistic on China's retail sales, industrial production and investment activities in April. We are not particularly worried about the impact…

Japan

Japan: Slow start

It is becoming quite “the thing” to start the year weakly… but with Japan there is genuine room for optimism

Hong Kong: Upgrading GDP growth for 2018

The extremely strong growth of the Hong Kong economy in 1Q18 surprised us. The growth mainly came from consumption created by the wealth effect from…