#PRC: Collapsing real estate bubble. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone: Return to Isolation,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 25 August 2023
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#PRC: Collapsing real estate bubble. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone: Return to Isolation,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/18/investing/china-evergrande-bankruptcy-explained/index.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:12.0 | CNN, Evergrande's bankruptcy may be just the beginning of China's real estate crisis. |
| 0:19.0 | My colleague and co-host and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang has returned from the Southern Hemisphere |
| 0:26.0 | from Australia to comment on Evergrande. |
| 0:30.0 | The old Evergrande is joined by a new and unusual name of property bubbles. |
| 0:36.0 | Gordon, a very good day to you. |
| 0:38.0 | You remind me there's something called Country Garden which begins to resemble Evergrande |
| 0:44.0 | but you tell me it's bigger. What is Country Garden? |
| 0:47.0 | Country Garden is another property developer in China. |
| 0:51.0 | Last year it was China's biggest property developer by sales. |
| 0:56.0 | And if you last week it missed the payments on two bonds. |
| 1:01.0 | Both US dollars denominated. It has until September sometime to cure. |
| 1:07.0 | If it doesn't, it goes into default. |
| 1:10.0 | We welcome our colleague and Stevenson Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Lone Return to Isolation. |
| 1:17.0 | And Country Garden now added to the list of properties in doubt. |
| 1:22.0 | Is this a cascade, a domino effect or many metaphors? |
| 1:26.0 | Are we going to see more and more or Evergrande and Country Garden at the end of the story? Good evening to you. |
| 1:33.0 | Hi there, John. So yeah, I think we already have. |
| 1:36.0 | The interesting thing is that we saw defaults in the finance sector last week, |
| 1:42.0 | not of the big banks but of financial institutions. |
| 1:46.0 | And I think that that's likely to increase because these companies have tentacles across the economy. |
| 1:53.0 | What's driving it in? Is it a recession? Is it COVID-19? Is it the tightening policies in Beijing? |
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