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china local government debt

  • China’s Third Plenum Planners Face Big Problems Besides Property Crisis
    China’s Third Plenum Planners Face Big Problems Besides Property Crisis
    China's local governments have supported growth through heavy borrowing and spending big, but their debt loads are another hurdle to China's development.
    July 25, 2024BY Milton Ezrati
  • China’s Financial Outlook Gets Another Downgrade
    China’s Financial Outlook Gets Another Downgrade
    Fitch allows China to keep its still-high credit rating but, to the finance ministry’s chagrin, downgrades the country’s ...
    April 27, 2024BY Milton Ezrati
  • Why Chinese Consumers Feel So Blue
    Why Chinese Consumers Feel So Blue
    Beijing needs an active consumer to drive economic growth, but Chinese households, with reason, don't want to play ...
    February 27, 2024BY Milton Ezrati
  • Decentralized Debts Present Big Problems for China
    Decentralized Debts Present Big Problems for China
    Commentary As China faces increasing debt pressures from years of excessive borrowing by consumers, state-owned companies, and local ...
    January 19, 2024BY Christopher Balding
  • Beijing Can’t Fix China’s Economic Problems
    Beijing Can’t Fix China’s Economic Problems
    Commentary China’s Central Economic Work Conference was concluded in Beijing on Dec. 13. This is a yearly central ...
    December 21, 2023BY Stu Cvrk
  • China Slowdown: Consumers Refuse to Spend
    China Slowdown: Consumers Refuse to Spend
    News Analysis In the last week of October, China experienced a decline in factory activity, with the manufacturing ...
    November 22, 2023BY Antonio Graceffo
  • CCP Cuts Police Force, Experts Point to Economic Crisis and Past Collapses of Former Communist Regimes
    CCP Cuts Police Force, Experts Point to Economic Crisis and Past Collapses of Former Communist Regimes
    The regime's cutting of local police stations due to high local governments debts amid unrest resembles the signs ...
    November 19, 2023BY Alex Wu
  • China’s Xi Makes Unprecedented Visit to Central Bank as Chinese Developers Struggle With Insolvency
    China’s Xi Makes Unprecedented Visit to Central Bank as Chinese Developers Struggle With Insolvency
    News Analysis Chinese leader Xi Jinping paid his first-ever visit to the central bank on Oct. 24 since ...
    October 27, 2023BY Jessica Mao, Xin Ning and Olivia Li
  • Mass Debt Defaults by China’s Local Governments Are Inevitable: Experts
    Mass Debt Defaults by China’s Local Governments Are Inevitable: Experts
    China’s local governments are reporting worsening financial conditions. Their debt ratios have been increasing yearly, posing greater challenges ...
    May 20, 2023BY David Chu and Olivia Li
  • CCP’s Budget Deficit Reaches Nearly $1 Trillion
    CCP’s Budget Deficit Reaches Nearly $1 Trillion
    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime's fiscal balance for the first three quarters of 2022 shows that revenue for ...
    November 10, 2022BY Kathleen Li and Olivia Li
  • China’s Local Governments Have Financial Difficulties Following ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
    China’s Local Governments Have Financial Difficulties Following ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
    Chinese authorities admitted on March 19 that outbreaks of new COVID-19 cases occurred in "multiple cities at the ...
    March 24, 2022BY Kathleen Li
  • Chinese Regime’s Local Debts Reach Record High, Equivalent to 52 percent of GDP
    Chinese Regime’s Local Debts Reach Record High, Equivalent to 52 percent of GDP
    The Chinese communist regime’s Ministry of Finance released the local governments’ bonds and debt balances for this year ...
    November 25, 2021BY Alex Wu
  • China’s Local Government Debt: The Hidden Threat
    China’s Local Government Debt: The Hidden Threat
    News Analysis At the close of 2020, China’s local government debt stood at $3.97 trillion. However, this does not ...
    October 7, 2021BY Antonio Graceffo
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