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China-watchers are taking for granted an early interest rate hike, with one probably coming in the next few days.

Even a decade ago, China watchers were touting Huawei as one of the companies most likely to become China's first big global brand.

EARLY this year, many China-watchers warned that the government's stimulus was not enough to save the economy from a deep downturn.

Four questions, in particular, span the concerns of various communities of China-watchers: Why has China's economy grown as it has?

But China-watchers should not read too much into a single month, the Board cautions.

But some of the remarks by GOP candidates have been particularly puzzling to China watchers.

That number has become lodged in the consciousness of China watchers, even though it was just derived from a broad-brush statement.

We China-watchers are far too reliant on government-published figures but they have no comparative basis.

Some China watchers believe the sector's bad loans are so vast that the government may need every cent of its trillion-dollar reserves.

In recent months China-watchers have started worrying that the country's local-government debt is a ticking time bomb.

But for China watchers, the deal is noteworthy for a couple of reasons.

Thanks to such inconsistencies, many China-watchers track alternative proxies of growth.

The China watchers' consensus on what happened is probably correct but certainly inadequate.

Some China-watchers were never really convinced the state was on the retreat.

The ever-lengthening list, some China watchers believe, signals a reversal of China's economic liberalization.

Meanwhile, China watchers are having to look elsewhere.

Distrust of GDP has led many China-watchers to track alternative monthly measures of growth.

Yet China watchers caution that despite the warm diplomacy, Beijing won't save the euro zone.

The selection won't come as a surprise to China watchers.

Many U. S. China watchers say little business will get done once a Chinese leadership transition starts in 2012.

So China-watchers were quick to welcome a turn in the monetary weather this week.

But even China-watchers may have been taken aback by a development in China's financial capital.

Peering through this lens, China-watchers detect a shift.

China watchers worldwide have taken note.

And China watchers are sanguine about the outlook for growth.

So why are longtime China watchers staring to worry?

Don't fear, say the ebullient crowd of China-watchers.

In October, China's inflation rate jumped to 4. 4 percent from 3. 6 percent the month before, catching many China watchers by surprise.

That is why China-watchers have developed their own spectrum of integrity.

Again, I am less worried about these than are some other China watchers.