Is China’s economy in trouble?
Global investors are keeping a close eye on China amidst debt problems at a big real estate company and manufacturing output hit by an energy crisis.
For decades China's economic growth has been the envy of the western world. But current signs suggest all is not well.
Regulations brought in by government to curb businesses reliance on debt have badly hit the its second largest real estate developer, Evergrande and manufacturing output has been hit by power shortages.
So is China’s economy in trouble?
Experts:
Sara Hsu, visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai
Michael Pettis, Finance Professor at Peking University and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
Iris Pang, ING's Chief Economist for Greater China
Travis Lundy, independent research analyst in Hong Kong
Presenter: Charmaine Cozier
Researcher: Chris Blake
Production Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: People commute in front of the under-construction Guangzhou Evergrande football stadium in Guangzhou, China's southern Guangdong province on September 17, 2021. (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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