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S1E5: Could a China Evergrande collapse cause an Asian crisis? - Speaking of Asia Ep 5
Speaking of Asia Ep 5: Could a China Evergrande collapse cause an Asian crisis?
12:21 mins
Synopsis: Join The Straits Times's associate editor Ravi Velloor, in this series of podcasts as he distils his experience from four decades of covering the continent.
In this fifth episode, he discusses the debt worries of China Evergrande, the world's most indebted real estate company, and asks whether there could be a regional economic crisis should this firm collapse, just as the failure of Hanbo Steel in Korea in January 1997 was a forerunner to the Asian Economic Crisis.
The collapse of Hanbo Steel…
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