With many investors blaming the Federal Reserve for the recent emerging market rout, analysts told CNBC that China may come to the rescue.
"China will be the real driver of an emerging market rebound, it will be its savior," said Paul Krake, founder of View from the Peak: Macro Strategies.
"A reduction in the Fed's asset-purchase program is a concern but well telegraphed… While not the panacea for deficit emerging market economies, a Chinese rebound is a tremendous help both in terms of export recovery and asset market sentiment," he added.
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Emerging markets have seen a brutal sell-off this year after sharp falls in the value of the Argentine peso, Turkish lira, South African rand and Brazilian real triggered panic selling across the asset class. Analysts largely blamed the turbulence on the Fed's tapering measures, the first hint of which last year sent risk assets worldwide into a tizzy.
But worries about China have been another key reason for the selloff, as fears over the nation's problematic shadow banking industry and a number of weaker-than-expected data points have once again ramped up concerns of a hard landing scenario.
Krake said China's economic outlook was far more crucial to emerging markets' recovery than the Fed's monetary policy, and a bounce back there would be the key trigger for a rebound. He said investors sometimes underestimated Chinese policy makers' ability to manage its credit issues.
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"China will not sit idly by and allow tighter credit conditions to derail economic activity. Therefore a policy response designed to achieve the 7 to 7.5 percent growth floor appears imminent," he said.
"A healthy banking system and robust credit growth would be positive for commodities and take pressure off many emerging markets," he added.
China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.7 percent last year, its lowest level since 1999. Policy makers have made it clear they want their economy to slow to more sustainable levels, but many analysts are worried China is on the brink of a sharp uncontrolled slowdown while fears about the economy's huge credit problems have been stoked by spikes in the interbank lending rate last year.
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However, Robert Prior-Wandesforde, director of non-Japan Asia economics at Credit Suisse, told CNBC a rebound in China's economy would not necessarily be positive for all emerging markets and the impact would be more complicated.
"If China bounces back with much stronger growth, then it will be helpful for the Asian economies which heavily export commodities to China, like Indonesia," he said. "However, big commodity importers like India will be a key loser in that situation."
