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Debt Risks

China’s crazy numbers fail to ease the jitters

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Like everything else in Communist Party-run institutions, the economic line blurs between fact and fiction

Categories State of Play Tags China, Debt Risks, Economy, News, Retail Sales, Rising Unemployment Leave a comment

Economic jitters continue to vibrate across China 

March 28, 2023March 27, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Industrial profits sink as Beijing struggles with debt, anemic consumer confidence and a property crisis

Categories Business Flash Tags Communist Party of China, Debt Mountain, Debt Risks, Economic Fallout, Evergrande, News, Profits Slump Leave a comment

Belt-tightening squeezes China’s global ambitions

October 6, 2022October 5, 2022 by China Factor Staff

Debt is piling up at home and abroad as President Xi’s New Silk Road project hits a potholed-strewn landscape

Categories Foreign Policy Tags Belt and Road Initiative, China, ChinaFactor, Debt Risks, Economic Slump, News, President Xi Jinping Leave a comment

What lies beneath China’s murky economy

August 31, 2022August 30, 2022 by China Factor Staff

‘Zero-Covid’ fallout has only added to the turmoil after years of ballooning local government and corporate debt

Categories Hazard Warning Tags ChinaFactor, Debt Risks, Economic Fallout, News, President Xi Jinping, Zero-Covid Policy Leave a comment

Flawed figures mask China’s economic time bomb

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 by Juweihu

Unemployment numbers leave analysts baffled as the world’s second-largest economy defies gravity

Categories Unemployment Risk Tags ChinaFactor, Covid-19 Outbreaks, Debt Risks, Economy, News, Property Crisis, Winter Olympics Leave a comment

Debt risks rise for China’s economy amid virus shockwaves

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by China Factor Staff

PBOC Governor Yi Gang faces a difficult economic balancing act in 2021

Categories Economy Tags Debt Risks, Global Growth Crippled, Governor Yi Gang, News, People’s Bank of China Leave a comment

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