以下是引用chesterky在2006-5-18 12:06:00的发言: If the US demand for China's products suddenly drop (due to US's structural problem), it is equivalent to a demand shock. During 1998 to 2003, the total world demand slow down because of the Asia Financial Crisis, burst of IT bubbles, 911 attack and SARS. Several countries in Asia including Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia allowed their currencies to depreciate so as to avoid serious deflation in the own economies. But for HK, the government decided to maintain the pegged rate, therefore HK experienced a long period of deflation.
It is very true that if the external demand for China's product sharply reduce, it is going to badly affect China's economy, despite it is very unlikely to happen.
At the same time, China should continue to build up its internal demand. This will lower the impact if the external demand suddenly drop.
Very true. If external demand goes up, domestic currency has either to appreciate, if allowed to float, or to experience inflation, if not allowed to float. On the opposite side, if external demand goes down, domestic currency has either to depreicate, if allowed to float, or experience deflation, if not allowed to float.