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#PRC: "Ticking time bomb" for a civil war and economic collapse. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#PRC: "Ticking time bomb" for a civil war and economic collapse. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-turns-to-well-honed-playbook-cut-rates-hide-data-bcfdd02?mod=hp_lead_pos2

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China, the headline in the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.0

China turns to well-honed playbook, cut rates, hide data.

0:46.0

Subhead, move to stop publishing youth unemployment.

0:49.0

Data raises concerns about opacity around China's downturn.

0:53.0

The downturn is broad and genuine.

0:56.0

A fall-off, a sharp fall-off and direct foreign investment, a sharp fall-off in trade, both imports and exports,

1:04.0

and dependency on the United States, Europe and our allies, Taiwan even and Korea for the chips that are necessary for the high-end production.

1:16.0

Another metric that are all illustrating the proverb on Wall Street, you can't catch a falling knife.

1:24.0

All of that could be regarded as a deep recession.

1:28.0

China has over borrowed, created conditions that cannot be easily solved,

1:34.0

and also insists upon surveillance and state-owned enterprises superior to private enterprise.

1:41.0

However, we set that on one side of the equation and we come over here to the President of the United States,

1:46.0

recently making remarks at a fundraiser I believe it was in Utah, that China is a ticking time bomb,

1:52.0

implicit in that statement as violence.

1:55.0

Gregory, do you follow the formula that Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party,

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