{"id":135986,"date":"2025-11-15T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135986\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:17:06","slug":"china-investment-crash-puzzles-economists-threatens-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135986\/","title":{"rendered":"China Investment Crash Puzzles Economists, Threatens Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-14\/china-s-economy-disappoints-with-growth-hurt-by-investment-slump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">collapsing investment<\/a> is as unprecedented as it is hard to explain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A plunge estimated at more than 11% in October from a year earlier was the worst single-month performance since the initial Covid lockdowns at the start of 2020, official data showed on Friday. A further crash in investment could prove destabilizing by affecting an activity that makes up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-03-05\/donald-trump-s-tariffs-push-xi-jinping-to-overhaul-china-s-economic-growth-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">nearly half <\/a>of China\u2019s gross domestic product, driving up risks for an economy already coping with a downswing in exports.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s collapsing investment is as unprecedented as it is hard to explain. A plunge estimated at more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2300,138,607,1951,219,34288,1122,3214,12410,266,19081,220,111,139,69,7254,27241],"class_list":["post-135986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-emerging-markets","tag-employment","tag-exports","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-greater-china","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-policy","tag-standard-chartered-plc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}