{"id":212670,"date":"2025-12-27T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212670\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:04:09","slug":"chinas-ballooning-debt-heightens-deflation-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212670\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s ballooning debt heightens deflation risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251226N condo showroom\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Miniature condominiums are put on display at a showroom in\u00a0Zhengzhou, China. Consumers have slowed housing purchases\u00a0amid a weak economy.\u00a0(Photo by Kentaro Shiozaki)<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO SHIOZAKI<\/p>\n<p>December 27, 2025 05:03 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING &#8212; China&#8217;s debt is more than three times the size of the economy, and the country&#8217;s economic slowdown threatens to drive up that load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miniature condominiums are put on display at a showroom in\u00a0Zhengzhou, China. Consumers have slowed housing purchases\u00a0amid a weak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[110814,72,58415,1322,12045,113,110815,61,60,17433],"class_list":{"0":"post-212670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ballooning","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinas","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-deflation","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-heightens","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-risks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}