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Is a Chinese property developer about to spark a global financial meltdown?

Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Anthony Curry, coming to you from Melbourne Down Under in Australia.

I'm drawing heavily this week on my Hong Kong-based

colleagues with both Jennifer Hughes and Pete Sweeney joining me to unpack the growing crisis

that is China ever grand. The property developer's fortunes have been spiraling downwards

for ages, but this week the rest of the world seemed finally to wake up to it, with investors

now worrying that it could be China's Lehman moment or LTCM moment or some other historical crisis moment.

So, Jen, Pete, thanks for coming on the show. Let's jump straight in. We should probably do a quick primer for everyone. Pete, to start with you.

Very simply, how did Evergrand get to be such a big player to

start with? It's important to put the whole Chinese property sector in context. I mean,

I mean, some of the wealthiest billionaires in China, some of the wealthiest families come out of the

property sector because, you know, when Beijing began liberalizing an economy, it started handing

over property, which had once been controlled by the government into private hands.

I believe it was the largest transfer of public real estate assets into private hands in all

history.

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