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by whimsicalism 1687 days ago
> China has basically been the single biggest driver of global growth over the past decade. Its highly overleveraged real estate market is a huge threat to its overall economy, and that has plenty of potential to create a massive knock-on.

I think what Western observers are missing is that this was an intentional "let fail" in order to prevent this structural weakness from becoming too big of a problem.

China is basically euthanizing this industry because they perceive it as a structural weakness.

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> I think what Western observers are missing is that this was an intentional "let fail" in order to prevent this structural weakness from becoming too big of a problem.

I think what you're missing is that China isn't even out of the first inning on this one.

Evergrande hasn't even failed yet. It's a slow-moving trainwreck and the contagion is only just starting to spread.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-state-council-hel...