Andrew Batson
China Research Director
Andrew is the director of China research for Gavekal. He manages the Dragonomics research team in Beijing, writes and comments on the Chinese economy, and speaks regularly to business and academic audiences.
Andrew has been writing about China since 1998. Before joining Gavekal in 2011, he was an award-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Beijing and Hong Kong. Andrew was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Andrew also blogs about China, economics and other topics at andrewbatson.com.
For Andrew's article archive click here.
Recent Articles
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Gavekal Dragonomics
July 18, 2018
Don't Fixate On Fixed-Asset Investment
If you believe China’s official statistics on fixed-asset investment, then capital spending is now collapsing across the country. But you probably shouldn’t believe those numbers, for reasons that Andrew explains in this piece. True growth in investment spending will slow in 2018, but much less catastrophically than the headline data suggest.
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Gavekal Research
July 12, 2018
Audio & Transcript — Gavekal Research Call July 2018
In this call Arthur Kroeber outlined his view on why President Donald Trump’s trade war is not a bluff, and is likely to escalate ahead of the US midterm elections in November; Andrew Batson explained the macro-level effects caused by all this uncertainty; and Chen Long discussed the market impacts in China and the country’s likely response.
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Gavekal Dragonomics
July 2, 2018
The End Of Normal Trade
The US may have backed down from imposing new restrictions on Chinese investment in the US. But it would be wrong to see this as a de-escalation of the US-China trade conflict. In this piece, Andrew argues that the tariffs taking effect Friday will mark the end of two decades of normal US trade with China, and the return of political uncertainty.