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Is China stumbling into its own mortgage disaster?

The Chinese authorities’ drift on managing bad property debts feels eerily like the impending subprime crisis in 2007.

It is spreading like wildfire. Home buyers in China are refusing to pay the mortgage on properties they have bought but that their financially strapped developers can’t finish. Some say that they will only resume payments when construction restarts.

A vast Evergrande development project in Wuhan.  Getty

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