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9 September, 2024
China economy
Opinion
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China’s local government financing vehicles are a ticking debt bomb
Amid infrastructure drive, shadowy LGFVs, which let local governments circumvent borrowing limits, risk triggering a debt-fuelled bust.
5 Feb 2025 - 4:30PM
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China economy
China urges prudence over plenty in rural projects as local debt clouds linger
24 Jan 2025 - 7:00PM
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China's economic recovery
China’s local governments urged to rethink approach to infrastructure investment
23 Dec 2024 - 7:05PM
China economy
Opinion
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3 challenges for China’s economic growth in 2025
The economy may be turning a corner but the property-sector crisis, local government debt and Trump’s return cloud the outlook.
12 Dec 2024 - 2:30PM
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China economy
Editorial
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Politburo prepared to do all that it takes in the name of growth
Beijing leaders make it clear that ‘more active’ policies are on the way through the use of fiscal and monetary measures.
11 Dec 2024 - 6:15AM
China economy
Editorial
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China fires first shot to shore up economy against any surprises
The 6 trillion yuan debt-swap plan announced by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee is a timely, measured and targeted approach.
10 Nov 2024 - 6:00AM
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China’s economic stimulus
China unveils debt-relief plan, keeps further stimulus salvo in reserve arsenal
Week-long NPC Standing Committee meeting ends with mostly forward-looking plans to right China’s economic ship.
8 Nov 2024 - 11:53PM
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China economy
Macroscope
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The most important part of China’s fiscal stimulus? Expectation management
As Beijing prioritises stability and development over reflation, investors must reconcile themselves to the realities of Chinese policymaking.
7 Nov 2024 - 9:23PM
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China’s economic stimulus
In stimulus signal, China’s top legislature mulls debt swap plan on first day
China’s top legislative body is reviewing local debt swaps on the first day of its session, suggesting more fiscal stimulus could arrive.
8 Nov 2024 - 2:55PM
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China’s economic stimulus
‘Avoiding a crisis’: economic stability top of agenda as Chinese lawmakers meet
Focus of meeting expected to be on risk prevention and economic stabilisation rather than directly boosting demand.
4 Nov 2024 - 5:41PM
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China’s economic stimulus
Chinese businesses pin payment hopes on special government bonds
Government adviser describes local governments’ arrears in accounts payable to enterprises as ‘shocking’.
23 Oct 2024 - 3:46PM
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China’s economic stimulus
China could tap 12 trillion yuan in new debt for stimulus in 2025: economist
To ensure stimulus measures are long-lasting and effective, a Chinese economist said, speed and scale must be prioritised.
21 Oct 2024 - 8:30PM
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China economy
As local debt burdens linger, Chinese county thrust back into spotlight
A big-spending county in one of China’s poorest provinces has become a topic of discussion again as local debts still encumber economy.
21 Oct 2024 - 1:00PM
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China’s economic stimulus
Explainer
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China’s economic stimulus efforts gather pace in busy week
President, premier and central bank chief among those dispensing clues to the next developments in China’s economic stimulus.
21 Oct 2024 - 10:02AM
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China's economic recovery
China’s space for fiscal stimulus could be limited amid debt woes: analysts
For maximum effect, observers say, a fiscal expansion to boost China’s economy will need to come soon if it is to come at all.
9 Oct 2024 - 9:43AM
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China's economic recovery
China names, shames 8 authorities after warning regions to curb hidden debt
Notices from top legislature and finance ministry come with debt management under the microscope amid scramble to achieve economic growth targets for 2024.
19 Sep 2024 - 4:23PM
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China's economic recovery
China’s debtors get ray of hope as Shenzhen shares bankruptcy data
Shenzhen has released more data on its personal bankruptcy cases, part of a pilot programme adopted to aid China’s individual debtors.
16 Sep 2024 - 12:16PM
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Are China’s local governments using unsustainable tactics to pay off debt?
From ‘smashing pots’ to special bonds, regional officials are running out of ways to squeeze businesses for more money, experts say.
8 Sep 2024 - 5:04PM
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China economy
Opinion
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To restore consumer confidence, China must save the property sector
Instead of squandering billions buying unsold properties, Beijing should learn from the US response to the global financial crisis.
27 Aug 2024 - 9:30AM
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China economy
Opinion
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China’s third plenum shows its reform era has entered a new phase
As China strives to build a “high-level socialist market economy”, expect the central government to build on the reforms of past decades.
13 Aug 2024 - 4:30PM
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Bangladesh
Editorial
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The current tensions in Bangladesh are not in anyone’s interest
Priority must be to restore order, protect investors from Hong Kong, mainland China, elsewhere. Bangladesh must not squander economic gains.
8 Aug 2024 - 6:45AM
China economy
Opinion
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The era of the entrepreneurial Chinese local government is over
Local governments, so crucial to China’s economic take-off, have arguably become the biggest drag on the economy and must now be reined in.
3 Aug 2024 - 3:15PM
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China economy
Bond aid? China’s treasury should issue securities to ease local debt: academic
With China’s local governments under the yoke of heavy debt, calls are growing louder for the central government to lighten the load with treasury bonds – and eventually, reform of public finances.
8 Jul 2024 - 1:55PM
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Banking & finance
Meet China’s next debt collectors – educated, tech-savvy and following new rules
Banks and financial service companies in China are recruiting more educated and tech-literate personnel for their debt collections, a reflection of new rules that have professionalised the industry.
2 Jul 2024 - 11:06AM
China property
US Congress hearing prompts questions over spillover of China’s property slump
After a hearing in the US Congress, concerns over the downstream effects of China’s property market slump have grown – but analysts say such a spillover is improbable with the scale of government intervention.
29 Jun 2024 - 8:00PM
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Diplomacy
My Take
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US, heal thy fiscal health first for the sake of the global economy
American lawmakers cannot or will not deal with their nation’s own multitrillion-dollar debt problem, so they complain about China’s.
28 Jun 2024 - 9:00PM
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US-China relations
US House raises alarm over China’s multi-trillion-dollar ‘time bomb’
Ratings agencies S&P Global and Moody’s accused of failing to reflect risk posed by mainland’s local government financing vehicles.
27 Jun 2024 - 11:00PM
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China's economic recovery
China’s ‘hidden debt’ seen shrinking, but scaling that mountain remains daunting
As Beijing continues to crack down on problematic local-level debt, economist Luo Zhiheng has run the numbers to estimate how much progress has been made.
14 Jun 2024 - 6:15PM
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