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Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"

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The Moral Hazards of Evergrande

There are real moral hazard problems in China. So why then do they allow Evergrande to default on its bond debts? Why wouldn't they have just put Xi Jinping in jail and make his creditors and all the home buyers whole? That's a great question. I'm not sure that these officials know what it's going to call as a systemic crisis. The degree of how much Evergrande mattered was also underestimated.

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