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Has China Just Shrugged Off Japanification?

A pair of influential papers compare China’s property slump with Japan’s lost decades.
Residential buildings in BeijingPhotographer: Andrea Verdelli/Bloomberg
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I’m Malcolm Scott, a senior international economics editor. Today we’re looking at whether China has shrugged off the long-feared Japanification. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

China looks to have shrugged off the Japanification tag — at least for now.