#PRC: Busted. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
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Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-weighs-letting-local-governments-issue-bonds-to-buy-homes
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-home-prices-just-plunged-most-2015
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series of CBS Island the World. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at |
| 0:08.6 | Gordon G. Chang and we're very pleased to welcome Ann Stevenson Yang, the author of the new book Wild Ride, |
| 0:15.0 | China's short-lived experiment in capitalism, we come to three sectors that |
| 0:20.5 | Anne guides us to watch very carefully. |
| 0:23.0 | One is manufacturing. |
| 0:25.0 | That is the sector that the US has enjoyed these last years of the Chinese miracle, |
| 0:31.0 | cheaper and faster and always from China until, and then the |
| 0:36.8 | second is the consumer class, China buying China. The most important to my mind is the property bubble that was created over these |
| 0:46.7 | last decades and is now crumbling. |
| 0:50.4 | And a very good evening to you, I read from the reporting at Bloomberg, |
| 0:55.0 | China may let local governments sell bonds to buy homes. |
| 1:00.0 | Sub had more than half of the 546 billion dollars special bond quota already used |
| 1:07.4 | Translate this Ann what does this mean they've got unbuilt and unfinished towers everywhere. |
| 1:14.0 | The secondary and tertiary cities are crushed by the debt they took on. |
| 1:19.3 | Nobody's showing up. |
| 1:20.5 | Nobody will live in housing that is inadequate from far from where they can get employment. |
| 1:27.1 | What does it mean to sell bonds to buy homes? |
| 1:30.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:31.0 | Good evening, John. John. |
| 1:33.0 | What it means is that you take an empty plastic bottle of Clorox, you cut it open and you bail the |
| 1:38.8 | Titanic. |
| 1:40.5 | You know, the important thing to remember about China is that to the the party |
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