From AFP:
A US recession will dampen China’s surging exports but the impact on the world’s most populous nation, which is taking steps to cool down a red-hot economy, may be limited, experts say.
But they also cautioned that Beijing must be prepared to face protectionist trade policies from Washington as a result of a recession, with the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the credit rout showing little sign of easing.
Many experts believe there is a greater than a 50 percent likelihood of the United States, a huge absorber of Chinese exports, plunging into at least a short, shallow recession over the next 18 months or so. [Full text]