How do the reports of China's economy, const. and exports slowing REALLY affect them?

[DON SVO]

There's been a lot of stuff going around lately about how China is building less, exporting less and just generally slowing down.

I have thoughts of the Japanese implosion from a few decades ago (that oddly enough began after they started trying to buy a bunch od domestic USA real estate) and how that may correlate to this situation.

I'd like nothing more than to see China sink into the core of the earth, but what's the skinny?

[BERNIE MOSFET]

For the brief time I was there, I saw acres of vacant new development. There are tons of apartments and condominium buildings without residents. Some estimates were around 65 million vacant units nationally. I think the idea was to bring more rural Chinese to urban centers. Maybe Hu Jintao likes the movie Field of Dreams?

They've got to hit a plateau sooner or later.

[Forever_frost]

They are imploding from lack of labor (for every 2 people already there, they only have max 1 kid) and competition for their labor. They are also having to access their own resources to compete which is putting a strain on the country

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They are imploding from lack of labor (for every 2 people already there, they only have max 1 kid) and competition for their labor. They are also having to access their own resources to compete which is putting a strain on the country

They're not there yet, but they will be soon. Their pace of growth has been unsustainable for a while.

[32vfromhell]

Not to mention with the rising middle class there, they demand higher wages, which deflates profitability of basic manufacturing goods. What -is- going to explode, is consumer items for this growing middle class, rather than manufacturing goods to export. You are already beginning to see it now.

This new middle class wants cars, wants electronics, and wants fashionable items to show off their status. Great opportunity for American companies to exploit....if they can protect their IP's from getting stolen in wild-west china.

[slow99]

10% GDP CAGR eventually takes over the world!! Eeeekkkkk

[sc281]

10% GDP CAGR eventually takes over the world!! Eeeekkkkk

But how many empty cities will that end up being?

[SMEGMA STENCH]

if they can protect their IP's from getting stolen in wild-west china.

Doubt theyll be able to . China doesnt seem to care much about just ripping off what works

[Forever_frost]

China produces nothing of it's own. The only way companies are allowed to do business there is they have to give the government access to their tech