Chinese property crash will not stop

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The paradox of the Chinese Communist Party is that it is unelected but, at times, more responsive to public sentiment because it fears revolution. So, today, we get the rapid response to the emergence of “jingle mail” in its crashing property market.

Yesterday we saw the PBoC pledge more of nothing but other regulators stepping in:

Chinese regulators stepped up efforts to encourage lenders to extend loans to qualified real estate projects as the beleaguered property sector faced fresh risks from a widening mortgage-payment boycott on unfinished houses.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.