China factory jobs dry up as trade tensions hit manufacturing

Posted by rajnathani on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:32AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/dc8c670a-0652-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967cfc

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Re:China factory jobs dry up as trade tensions hit manufactu... by dshuang on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:54AM (#18986783)

https://outline.com/hxZAZS

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Re:China factory jobs dry up as trade tensions hit manufactu... by disqard on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:09AM (#18986852)

Thank you!

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Re:China factory jobs dry up as trade tensions hit manufactu... by rajnathani on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:50AM (#18987290)

The reasons may not necessarily be directly attributable to trade tensions, as there appears to be a debt-induced slowdown in China at the moment. Another article from ft.com to support this: "China industrial profits decline for first time in 3 years" (https://www.ft.com/content/e1d2b1c4-099a-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967...) (non-paywall: https://outline.com/qZdpNr)

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