Andy Xie Quotations

I think that the soft or hard landing debate is misleading. Financial markets usually have hard landings regardless of how an economy lands.

There's no question that oil is the strongest headwind for growth now. This is a very delicate moment, no doubt about it.

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you're building up more and more distortions in the economy.

If only the world remains wedded to free trade, there seems to be nothing to prevent China's export juggernaut from continuing to rumble on.

India and Korea, in particular, should raise interest rates to contain financial speculation.

I believe that the current dollar adjustment is cyclical.

It's slowed less quickly than expected because local governments have been able to push through a lot of projects.

The answer, I believe, is that there are too many oil traders engaging in oil price speculation. They will likely keep prices up until an oil market collapse. That day is not too far away, I believe,

Over the next two decades, one of the two deltas will become the pre-eminent leader in China's economy, ... The YRD has the advantage in geography.

Overseas Chinese control, by my estimate, $2 trillion of liquid assets that can be mobilized instantly to punt on anything from European football games to Shanghai property. This source of money is both the boon and the bane of China's economic development.