China’s zero-Covid policies and its post-pandemic recovery efforts have strained finances at local levels, pushing debt to an all-time high this year – twice what it was in 2017 – with little help from Beijing.
How China’s hidden debt risk ‘comes from its system’, and why local governments are beholden to Beijing
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