China’s meteoric rise to become the world’s second-largest economy could be facing a major stumbling block, with forecasts indicating that Premier Xi Jinping may not be able to stem the tide of economic woes beleaguering the nation.
The implications of China’s economic predicament are extensive, posing risks not only to its substantial population of 1.4 billion but also having potential global repercussions.
Spencer Hakimian, the brainpower behind Tolou Capital Management, delivered a stark warning stating it’s time to recognize the magnitude of the situation. “The biggest story in the world right now is China. Everything else is secondary.”
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Enumerating China’s challenges reveals a litany of economic distress signals. With the country floundering under a colossal debt pile amassed through immense loans for bolstering its economy and expansive infrastructure undertakings, it has inadvertently inflated a mammoth property bubble now ominously close to bursting.
Premier Jinping faces the daunting task of injecting up to $1.4 trillion to combat deflation, but this means increasing the nation’s debt even further. The exact scale of China’s debt remains a mystery due to questionable official figures, yet estimates suggest it could be around 360 percent of its GDP.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/china-financial-crisis-economy-money-33633599
The danger for China is deflation could snowball by encouraging households reeling from falling paychecks to cut back on spending, or delay purchases because they expect prices to fall further. Corporate revenues will suffer, stifling investment and leading to further salary cuts and layoffs, bankrupting families and firms.
Private surveys show that’s already starting to happen.
finance.yahoo.com/news/china-deflationary-spiral-now-entering-103006274.html
China is Collapsing, it’s happening now!
Multiple YT economic commentators, some more reputable than others, are saying the same thing. All posted a few hours ago:
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