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China’s bursting housing bubble, explained
In China, residential housing makes up about a quarter of domestic output. And this market is crashing. For years, preselling housing real estate made it easy for developers to snag loans; they could buy more land and keep building. Two years ago, though, President Xi cracked down on these lending