Can China achieve a soft landing?(A SYMPOSIUM OF VIEWS)

China's official policy community seems desperate to curtail runaway investment even as it seeks to encourage the middle class to consume. Interest rate increases have been difficult to implement. Currency appreciation, occurring at only a modest pace, appears to offer little help in slowing the economy. Some have suggested that as an alternative, the official community is starting to encourage hikes in exports prices as a kind of backdoor means of slowing things. Of course, no one can completely predict the future state of the global economy, but what are the chances China succes