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[โ€“] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To someone living in China, this is just a giant smokescreen. The economy is dwindling, unemployment at an all time high (so high, in fact, that since October the statistics ministry is not allowed to publish figures anymore), inflation is high, private indebtedness on alarming levels, the gov had to save 6 banks from collapsing, and a bunch of shadow lenders did collapse, there is a real estate crisis, private spending down to a minimum, public spending increasingly erratic, and educated Chinese are leaving by the hundredthousands every month.

[โ€“] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

There's 2 errors in your assessment. Otherwise, I pretty much agree.

  1. Their problem isn't inflation, but deflation. As their output is greater than their domestic and international consumption. This leads to lower profit margins. It's a huge problem, just not in the direction your implying.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-27/china-s-industrial-profits-rise-though-deflation-concerns-linger

  1. The brain drain is in the thousands per month leading to tens of thousands a year. It's not good, but no where as bad as your implying.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-27/china-s-industrial-profits-rise-though-deflation-concerns-linger

So, while yes I agree with you that China's economy is in bad shape. Those 2 data points are incorrect.

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