China's real estate sector is the foundation for everything
Workers walk inside the construction site of a project developed by Evergrande Group in Beijing, China on Sept. 22, 2021. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
China’s foreign debt, including U.S. dollar debt, stood at $2.4 trillion at the end of 2020, a 4 percent increase from the previous quarter. The country’s corporate debt, combined with household debt, now exceeds 300 percent of GDP.
Antonio Graceffo
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Antonio Graceffo, Ph.D., is a China economy analyst who has spent more than 20 years in Asia. Graceffo is a graduate of the Shanghai University of Sport, holds an MBA from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and studied national security at American Military University.