Smedley D. Butler was a hero to the Chinese people. Few Americans since have received that kind of respect...China has a crapload of problems. A huge real estate bubble, failing banks, demographic collapse and loss of manufacturing. The cascade of failure is going to affect the world.
I mostly agree with your points except for the failing banks. The "banks" that failed are shadow banks, they are not a government-backed banks. A non-shadow bank, China will not let it fail unless China runs out of money. Maybe in china right now users are posting about the "FTT Crypto Bank" scam, maybe according to their standards FTT is akin to what a shadow bank is. China has their own version of FDIC, the shadow banks are not insured, if you put money into a non-FDIC bank because the interest rate was insanely high and the bank went bankrupt, I doubt anyone would take pitty on you. In the same vein if you lost money in FTT I also doubt anyone would take pitty on you.China has a crapload of problems. A huge real estate bubble, failing banks, demographic collapse and loss of manufacturing. The cascade of failure is going to affect the world.
True. But it only means the CCP is allowing these banks to operate. And that undermines the confidence in the regular banks. If people start a run on them it can create a cascade effect. Panic can occur. And is contagious.I mostly agree with your points except for the failing banks. The "banks" that failed are shadow banks, they are not a government-backed banks. A non-shadow bank, China will not let it fail unless China runs out of money. Maybe in china right now users are posting about the "FTT Crypto Bank" scam, maybe according to their standards FTT is akin to what a shadow bank is. China has their own version of FDIC, the shadow banks are not insured, if you put money into a non-FDIC bank because the interest rate was insanely high and the bank went bankrupt, I doubt anyone would take pitty on you. In the same vein if you lost money in FTT I also doubt anyone would take pitty on you.
I used to watch a lot of those China Observer videos like what CM posted, I stopped watching recently when because they talked about bank failures without mentioning they were shadow banks. Things are bad in China but maybe only 25-50% as bad as what the China Observers videos portray.
I am not pro-China, I think Taiwanese people are a better representation of Chinese people than the Chinese are. The government of China holds the people back, if china adopted democratic systems like Taiwan, holy shit, they would have flying aircraft carriers and Gundam shit, so maybe it is fortunate for us that the CCP is as messed up as it is.