PREVIEW: From a longer convesation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, who studied the PRC economy over many years, especially the property boom -- the Ghost Cities that can house over 1 billion but now sit largely empty and deteriorating: asking if Beiji

PREVIEW: From a longer convesation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, who studied the PRC economy over many years, especially the property boom -- the Ghost Cities that can house over 1 billion but now sit largely empty and deteriorating: asking if Beijing has a plan to solve the property collapse. The long answer is no plan.  And then there is the security state.  More later.

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