HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author)

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HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy
by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X

https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2024/08/19/iron-ore-prices-plummet-amid-chinas-property-crisis/

How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection.

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0:55.8	the opening and closing of the Chinese economy. First the opening part there's been a
1:06.0	international banking crisis and the way that the Beijing Chinese Communist Party responds to it as Anne says in their tasseled loafers is to host cash on the population and that creates
1:17.2	opportunities. The opportunities however look like the creation of a golden monster.
1:24.0	And this is Anne's vision,
1:26.0	Anne's metaphor.
1:28.0	It works.
1:29.0	But what we have is a change of opinion of the Chinese people no longer as Anne writes or do you want a
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