What China stimulus can we expect?

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Morgan Stanley with the note.

Investors are laser-focused on Beijing’s stimulus, as the record US tariff hikes and little room for near-term de-escalation mean rising downside to growth.

We don’t expect immediate new stimulus. Beijing is likely to prioritize front-loading of the pre-announced Rmb2trn NPC package in 2Q.A more plausible timing for a Rmb1-1.5trn supplementary package would be 2H,though announcement of it could be brought forward if exports weaken sharply.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.