Inside China
Inside China
South China Morning Post
How China’s bank scandal and mortgage boycott have Beijing scrambling to respond
21 minutes Posted Jul 21, 2022 at 9:27 am.
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Post journalist Holly Chik and Beijing-based reporter Amanda Lee look into the Henan bank scandal where savings accounts were frozen and a subsequent protest was violently quashed; business desk reporter Pearl Liu unpacks the growing number of people across China with mortgages suspending payments on unfinished flats as more property developers slide into default, and how Beijing is trying to defuse a ticking timebomb of debt.