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#PRC: #ScalaReport: Factory managers panic; Beijing blocks rare earth exports. Chris Riegel, Scal.com #Stratacache.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#PRC: #ScalaReport: Factory managers panic; Beijing blocks rare earth exports. Chris Riegel, Scal.com #Stratacache.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/china-bans-exports-of-some-rare-earth-processing-technologies-lqf1pzw8?sref=5g4GmFHo

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0:50.7

Asia. Right now watching China. The summary is at the end of 22 a year ago

0:58.6

the emergence from the total lockdown in China was to lead to a burst of energy and a recovery

1:06.8

of the great machine of miracles that we'd experience these last decades.

1:12.1

The short version is it didn't happen. In truth what we now

1:15.9

here is that the property sector where the middle class has put its life savings,

1:20.8

its future, the property, so far from a bubble, is a crater. And the

1:26.8

remedy from the central government is not our business. You take care of it. The municipalities around the country borrowed a great deal of money against land and built on that land expecting people to show up. We build it, they will come. Well they did come for three cities or maybe

1:45.8

four but not for all the rest who are now hobbled by an enormous amount of debt so

1:51.3

they can't help the middle class. The middle class has put its

1:54.2

savings in apartments. I'm told by my colleague Gordon Chang, there are enough

1:59.5

empty apartment spaces in China for one billion people. In other words beyond ghost cities

2:05.3

are ghost residents. That's how bad the property sector is and the remedy I'm

2:11.4

told by Ann Stevenson Yang from Beijing, the remedy is we'll get out of this with

2:16.7

manufacturing.

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