{"id":8816,"date":"2025-08-19T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:09:10","slug":"shanghai-rally-shows-china-markets-dont-need-the-west-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8816\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Rally Shows China Markets Don&#8217;t Need The West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>&#8211; Asia Times)<br \/>\nThe Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) closed at its highest level in a decade on Monday, finishing at 3,728. This is not just a local story but a global signal. <\/p>\n<p>Markets are often shaped by perception, and the perception now is that Asia is showing leadership at a time when many expected only caution. The SCI&#8217;s 20% rebound since April is remarkable by any measure. It tells us that confidence can return quickly when conditions change. <\/p>\n<p>Chinese households, sitting on near-record levels of savings, have been ploughing cash into equities. The immediate trigger was President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to pause his tariff escalation with Beijing, removing a looming risk that had weighed heavily on sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>For months, global investors had been braced for confrontation, and the absence of fresh tariffs under a new 90-day truce released pent-up demand.<\/p>\n<p>What is striking is the speed of this turnaround. In April, Chinese equities were being sold off heavily and international investors were trimming exposure.<\/p>\n<p>But by August, the market had swung to a decade high. This kind of shift demonstrates the power of liquidity when coupled with even a modest easing of political risk.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1109945386\/Shanghai-Rally-Shows-China-Markets-Dont-Need-The-West\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN19082025000159011032ID1109945386<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>Legal Disclaimer:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN&#8211; Asia Times) The Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) closed at its highest level in a decade on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,381,8744,179,18,19,17,188,8743,2792,5708],"class_list":{"0":"post-8816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-don","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-rally","17":"tag-shanghai","18":"tag-shows"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}