Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian has said that slowdown in China is a historic opportunity for India as Chinese production becomes less profitable. India is a net importer country accordingly Chinese slowdown is an opportunity to relaunch growth in India. Investment from Chinese company like Foxconn of Taiwan and Xiaomi suggest that companies based in China might now view India as a hedge against the slowdown.
Talking about the recently devalued Chinese Renminbi, Subramanian has stated that India has an unambiguous interest in supporting China's currency become the part of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, or the supplementary foreign exchange reserves maintained by the International Monetary Fund, because essentially as the Chinese currency becomes more and more international, China will have to open up its economy which is good for the world, good for China. He also said that after which China will be less able to manipulate its currency, keep it low, which could be disadvantageous for China. So India has a strong stake in that the Chinese currency becomes internationalized.
Besides, he added that China should be able to get the geo-political benefits issuing from its currency becoming more international because the concrete economic result would be both an opening up and a tighter linking of the Chinese economy. Last month, in order to deal with current economic weaknesses, the Chinese central bank had lowered its daily reference rate by 1.9 percent, rocking currency markets globally and affecting the rupee.
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