{"id":132103,"date":"2012-02-25T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=132103"},"modified":"2012-05-22T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T03:32:01","slug":"how-to-beat-back-the-china-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/how-to-beat-back-the-china-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Beat Back the China Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

At China Real Time Report, Tom Orlik arms “panda-loving” readers for battle against gloomy forecasters<\/strong><\/a> of bursting investment bubbles, real estate collapse, shadow banking catastrophe, dwindling workforces and ballooning debt levels.<\/p>\n

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For more more than two decades, prophets of China\u2019s impending doom have warned that the greatest economic success story in recent history is about to come screeching to a halt. For more than two decades, they\u2019ve been wrong.<\/p>\n

Of course, China has problems: an unbalanced growth model, ballooning credit levels and aging work force among them. But does that mean the world\u2019s second biggest economy is about to fall over?<\/p>\n

As a public service for Panda-lovers, China Real Time has compiled a list of the naysayers\u2019 main arguments, and counter arguments you can use to stop them in their tracks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See also CRT’s China Econtracker<\/a>, introduced last month<\/a> “with an aim to build the most comprehensive, free, English-language resource on the web for tracking changes in the world\u2019s second-largest economy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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