China's Export Led Growth Model Wasn't Always So Export Led

Wonkblog has an interesting interview with Patrick Chovanec, an economics professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing on China's current economic problems. At one point Mr. Chovanec refers to:

"China’s growth model for the last 30 years, which has been a classic export-led growth model."

Actually China's growth over the last three decades has not been consistently export led, or at least not to the same degree as was the case in the 10 years leading up to...