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Red flags flutter outside the Great Hall of the People before the second plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China March 8, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Aly Song
Posted inChina

China’s next dilemma: surging household borrowing

by William Pesek August 2, 2019February 18, 2020

The next wave of debt worries to spook global markets will come from Chinese households. The number 18 says it all. That’s how much in percentage terms Fitch Ratings calculates Chinese household debt grew in 2018 alone. In 2008, meanwhile, the ratio of China’s consumer IOUs to gross domestic product was 18%. By the end […]

A map shows the route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/ Wanishahrukh
Posted inBeijing, China, India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

CPEC moves on despite criticisms, doubts and protests

by Manoj Kumar Mishra December 31, 2018
Laos' Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping (R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 1, 2016.Photo: AFP/Nicolas Asfouri
Posted inAT Finance, China, Laos, South Asia, World

Laos will be a Least Developed Country till 2024, PM admits

by Bertil Lintner June 14, 2018February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump applauds during his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Win McNamee/Pool
Posted inChina, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

After a year of Donald Trump: good news and bad news

by Norman A. Bailey February 6, 2018
Vanuatu islands map. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, European Union, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Criticism of Belt and Road Initiative as ‘debt trap’ is flawed

by Ken Moak February 3, 2018February 3, 2018
Posted inChina

Chinese corporates ‘have huge opportunity to deleverage’

by Asia Times staff December 12, 2017February 18, 2020

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