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PREVIEW: From a longer convesation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, who studied the PRC economy over many years, especially the property boom -- the Ghost Cities that can house over 1 billion but now sit largely empty and deteriorating: asking if Beiji

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a longer convesation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, who studied the PRC economy over many years, especially the property boom -- the Ghost Cities that can house over 1 billion but now sit largely empty and deteriorating: asking if Beijing has a plan to solve the property collapse. The long answer is no plan. And then there is the security state. More later.

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0:00.0

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0:25.6

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0:30.0

This is John Bachelor speaking with colleague Anne Stevenson Yang about the property

0:35.0

bubble, the property collapse in China.

0:38.0

What is to be done?

0:39.8

The Chinese are recommending different solutions.

0:43.7

Perhaps the simplest would be unsecured loans from banks.

0:48.2

However, none of these things satisfy,

0:51.8

and I follow Anne's reporting that there is no solution except for a complete

0:57.0

change of business plan. Here's Anne to explain and how China will react is indicative of the present surveillance

1:08.0

regime in Beijing.

1:10.0

In other words, when you can't satisfy people who are owed money, you try bullying people who are owed money.

1:20.0

Here's Anne.

1:22.0

Well, I don't think there's any saving the property sector.

1:26.0

I think that Beijing needs to pivot and they have made half-hearted attempts to do that.

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