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Speaker 1: Joining us for some live discussion. Is Steven Angel, Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: chief North Asia TV corresponded, It's a pity we're not

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Speaker 1: here to talk about Nancy Pelosi because I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you the question of whether or not, Well, you

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Speaker 1: don't know yet because she hasn't, um, you know, she

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Speaker 1: hasn't actually made the decision yet to go to Taiwan

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Speaker 1: or not. But the question would have been, is Nancy

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Speaker 1: Pelosi in the process of inadvertently handing China a big win?

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Speaker 1: We're not meant to be talking about that. We're meant

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Speaker 1: to talk about now. Let's let's talk about China Everground,

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Speaker 1: because there will be another time once we know what

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Speaker 1: happens with Pelosi. Strip I don't know, just teasing it,

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Speaker 1: teasing it. Yeah, but ever Ground, Okay, this is a

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Speaker 1: big story. So they didn't come through with this preliminary restructuring,

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Speaker 1: which I think a lot of people doubted was coming anyway. Um,

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Speaker 1: but what's the significance of it or asset sales as

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Speaker 1: part of, of course, what would likely be China's largest

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Speaker 1: ever debt restructuring, you know, three hundred billion dollars in liabilities,

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Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars in dollar bonds among those total liabilities. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And the sheer size of every grand's death has left

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Speaker 1: obviously global investors worried that any collapse, if I'm going

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Speaker 1: to use the C word, could spark financial contagion and

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Speaker 1: curb you know, growth. You know, we we have those

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Speaker 1: p m I numbers that look pretty bad on the

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Speaker 1: manufacturing front. We know, of course the COVID zero has

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Speaker 1: a dampening effect on growth in the first half of

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Speaker 1: this year. Uh. We we have to watch this. This

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Speaker 1: is not just dollar bond holders not getting their coupons paid.

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Speaker 1: This is potential systemic risk to banks and other parts

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Speaker 1: of the economy. But yeah, I think we've spoken to

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Speaker 1: someone in this Bloomberg story saying the whole pyramid is

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Speaker 1: collapsing now. So things really kind of worse than they

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Speaker 1: were even a year ago. Steve, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: call the Chinese economy a pyramid, but I get where

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Speaker 1: you're going there. Um, there's there's a big problem because

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Speaker 1: the there's no other sector of the Chinese economy that

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Speaker 1: has as large as of an exposure to the property

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Speaker 1: sector than drumroll, please, banking seven point seven trillion dollars.

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Speaker 1: I think it was the last count five point eight

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Speaker 1: trillion US dollars and outstanding mortgages in the banking system

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Speaker 1: in China, and another one point nine trillion dollars of

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Speaker 1: loans to those developers. So there, if there's a contagion

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Speaker 1: through the property sector with ever Grand at the top

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Speaker 1: of that pyramid going down into the banks, SMP and

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Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank, among others are saying that there could be

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Speaker 1: between six and a half to seven percent of those

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Speaker 1: outstanding mortgages at risk, and that's gonna be a big

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Speaker 1: problem obviously for the Bank's tricky to see how the

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Speaker 1: contagion would work in China, given that the banking sector

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Speaker 1: is essentially a state backed banking sector. That's the key. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And and the government obviously could print money and step

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Speaker 1: and step in. But one definite sidebar to this is

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Speaker 1: the reverse wealth effect, because people in the past in China,

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Speaker 1: over the past say fifteen years, have been buying real

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Speaker 1: estate and seeing their wealth expand, and now it's going

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Speaker 1: the other direction, and so they're spending less. Absolutely, look

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty years or so, and I lived

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Speaker 1: in China and lived in Beijing, and I owned a

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Speaker 1: property there as well. There was a one way bet

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Speaker 1: essentially in property, and they've never really seen a big crash. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the property market in China has, you know, peaks and valleys,

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Speaker 1: it always does, and they reined in and there's policy,

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Speaker 1: but again, this has been a pretty much of one

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Speaker 1: way bet. It's unbelievable some of the wealth creation by

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Speaker 1: property from property. But all things come to an end.

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Speaker 1: And this you know, you alluded to implicit guarantees from

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Speaker 1: the government on on banks and deposits and this and that,

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Speaker 1: but there has not been a lot of guarantees for

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Speaker 1: homeowners and and and and uh and the developers who

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Speaker 1: are overly indebted. And so that's why there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of concern about the developers. I think. Heading towards the

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Speaker 1: Party congress, though, you're gonna see more policies that are

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Speaker 1: going to be backing these mortgage holders who are now

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Speaker 1: boycotting because at the end of the day, they do

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Speaker 1: not want social unrest tied to this. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that and what kind of further stimulus we could see

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Speaker 1: announced too, because as you mentioned a couple of moments ago,

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Speaker 1: we did see weakness coming through once again in the

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Speaker 1: China economy in terms of factory activity unexpectedly contracting, and

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Speaker 1: all of this not voting very well when we're looking

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Speaker 1: to the latter part of the year and very far

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Speaker 1: away from these growth targets that they kind of ditched

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Speaker 1: last week. Anyway. Yeah, p m I Manufacturing p m

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Speaker 1: I as we've just been reporting forty nine. We were

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Speaker 1: expecting fifty point three. So that's thirteen basis points essentially

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Speaker 1: And we only had one blip upwards in June after

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Speaker 1: Shanghai came back into the into the fold. It was

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Speaker 1: not long lasting. As Bloomberg Economics says, this is an

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Speaker 1: abrupt loss of momentum, and the data was grim across

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Speaker 1: the board. Pretty you know there their hot takes on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Economics is pretty grim for sure for the Chinese

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Speaker 1: ec of me, what's working the best at the moment

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Speaker 1: in China, because there's so many areas where we can

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Speaker 1: see fault lines, but yet the country is still growing,

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Speaker 1: The economy is still it's still growing. Yeah, it fits

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Speaker 1: and starts. Obviously, there's been some you know, of course,

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Speaker 1: the property sector, and you have these mortgage boycotts seen

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Speaker 1: in more than nineties cities across China. You do also

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Speaker 1: have uh various COVID outbreaks and lockdowns. Wuhan was locked

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Speaker 1: down again. So but as far as the strength, you

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Speaker 1: held up pretty well fifty three point eight. That services

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Speaker 1: April it was down to forty one. Because Shanghai is

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Speaker 1: a services based economy really right with manufacturing on the periphery.

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Speaker 1: But construction is part of that services non manufacturing p

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Speaker 1: m I. So you've seen pick up in construction as

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Speaker 1: the government has been encouraging uh these developers at all

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Speaker 1: costs get these unfinished apartments completed so people will not revolt.

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Speaker 1: As Dave a quick question on what we're hearing in

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong as well. I mean, you just got out

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Speaker 1: of quarantine. Maybe if you'd waited a couple more months,

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Speaker 1: that could have been shorter. Yeah, I don't think my

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Speaker 1: boss would give me a couple more months of vacation.

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Speaker 1: I think I did my seven days and and you know,

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Speaker 1: after the fifth day, you're ready to get out, and

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Speaker 1: you've been tested ten times through five days, right, uh

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Speaker 1: rap tests rapid engine tests and also the PCRs, so

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Speaker 1: you pretty much know you're standing after five days. So

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Speaker 1: I'm in all not surprisingly I'm in support of a

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Speaker 1: five day quarantine in the hotel. Well, I'm actually zero,

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Speaker 1: I'm in supportive. Yeah. The chief executive John Lee told

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Speaker 1: the Hong Kong Economic Journal that that they would be

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Speaker 1: announcing this very shortly, that they would be cutting the

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Speaker 1: required days of hotel quarantine, but he said that they're

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Speaker 1: looking at different data to decide on the exact number

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Speaker 1: foreign countries that are affected. First, yeah, I think they're

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Speaker 1: going to have a different arrangement for mainland China. Um.

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Speaker 1: But as far as the data, they're looking at every

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Speaker 1: possible granular data that they have to determine if there

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Speaker 1: is a risk of letting people out of hotel quarantine

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Speaker 1: with these latest variants, whether it pops up a lot sooner.

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Speaker 1: So they'll make the decision, at least publicly, they will

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Speaker 1: say this based on their the most readily available data

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Speaker 1: that they have right now, up to date data. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we will at some point in the near future talk

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Speaker 1: about Nancy Pelosi and her trip to Asia, So I'll

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Speaker 1: save that for, you know, another another hour. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: Steve Stephen Ingol or TV correspondent, This is Bloomberg