La Chine note l’Occident

La Chine note l’Occident

Les Chinois en ont assez des agences de cotations occidentales et anglo-saxonnes (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s), qu’ils jugent idéologiquement partisanes. Voici donc Dagong Global Credit Rating Co, nouvelle agence de cotation chinoise qui distribue ses évaluations.

«Chinese president Hu Jintao said in April that the world needs “an objective, fair, and reasonable standard” for rating sovereign debt. Dagong appears to have stepped into the role, saying its objective was to assess countries using methods that would “not be affected by ideology”.

»“The reason for the global financial crisis and debt crisis in Europe is that the current international credit rating system does not correctly reveal the debtor's repayment ability,” said Guan Jianzhong, Dagong's chairman. The agency, known in China for rating companies, said its goal is to “correct the defects” of the existing system and offer a counter-weight to Western agencies.»

Ces lignes sont extraites d’une chronique de Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, dans le Daily Telegraph du 12 juillet.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7886077/Chinese-rating-agency-strips-Western-nations-of-AAA-status.html)

Les résultats des cotations de Dagong sont dévastateurs pour l’Occident. A noter que DSK, président du FMI, ne désapprouve pas («Dominique Strauss-Kahn, chief of the International Monetary Fund, agreed on Monday that the rising East is a transforming global force. “Asia's time has come,” he said.»)

«Dagong Global Credit Rating Co used its first foray into sovereign debt to paint a revolutionary picture of creditworthiness around the world, giving much greater weight to “wealth creating capacity” and foreign reserves than Fitch, Standard & Poor's, or Moody's.

»The US falls to AA, while Britain and France slither down to AA-. Belgium, Spain, Italy are ranked at A- along with Malaysia.

»Meanwhile, China rises to AA+ with Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, reflecting its €2.4 trillion (£2 trillion) reserves and a blistering growth rate of 8pc to 10pc a year. […] Dagong rates Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and Singapore at AAA, along with the commodity twins Australia and New Zealand.»

Enfin, pour la situation générale : «The IMF expects Asia to grow by 7.7pc in 2010, vastly outpacing the eurozone at 1pc and the US at 3.3pc. Emerging nations hold 75pc of the world's $8.4 trillion (£5.6 trillion) of reserves.»

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