Can the Chinese economy avoid ‘Japanification’?

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Aviva Investors with the note:

With an ageing population, rising debt and vulnerabilities in the property market, China risks following Japan’s path from runaway growth to financial crisis and stagnation. Can Xi’s government rebalance the economy and change course?

  • The structural issues facing the Chinese economy
  • How the crisis in China’s property sector could weigh on growth
  • The potential parallels with Japan’s “lost decades”

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.