La Chine dépasse le Japon pour devenir le plus important partenaire commercial de l'Asie:
China overtook Japan as the largest single trading partner within Asia last year, accounting for 12% of the region's total external trade, according to ABN Amro research.
Japan accounted for 10% of regional trade, though it still outpaces China as the key partner to Southeast Asian nations Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
"China is now a more important trading partner than Japan," wrote ABN Amro regional strategist Irene Cheung in a research note. (...)
As China continues to grow, watch for the prestige of the yuan to rise at the expense of the Japanese yen in foreign-exchange pits. (...)
"The Japanese yen will become less of a driver for Asian foreign exchange and the influence of the yuan will grow," Cheung wrote.
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