The Chinese economy has been generally weaker than acknowledged in the 2020s. The most frequently discussed solutions, such as stimulating consumption, cannot generate a sizable, sustained impact for more than a year or so.
Reinflating the property bubble would do so. It cannot be done immediately or easily but could for a multiyear period bring clearly faster economic growth without wrenching dislocation or automatically adding to the debt burden.
In the longer term, even successful property reflation will not matter much. Unwillingness to reform, debt accumulation, and especially demography guarantee a China that essentially stops growing by the late 2030s.
Date: July 19th, 2026 5:07 AM Author: Odious tanning salon mental disorder
Eventually it is going to happen and with the population collapsing and the workforce rapidly shrinking, even a China optimist would have a hard time explaining how the country can overcome that.
Date: July 19th, 2026 3:33 PM Author: Big pale public bath
"He left America because he didn't want to work around a bunch of tribalistic Indians that would either steal his work or try to get him fired and replaced with an Indian."
The US is maintaining its lead on frontier AI models, talent, and capital deployment, while China is pushing ahead on cost-optimized models and accelerating adoption across its economy.
"Cost-optimzed" Typical Chinese value proposition--including their women as wives--yesterday, today, tmrw
Date: July 19th, 2026 3:43 PM Author: Lavender Hissy Fit
Trump is still trying to fight 20th century wars like a typical deranged and mentally incompetent Boomer while China knows the future is for those with the Digital Panopticon.