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China’s Economic Bubble Has Bursts Amid Capital Flight and Tariff Wars - Chiang Rai Times

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China's property sector collapse is now in its fourth year. Capital outflows hit $200 billion in 2025 despite every control Beijing could invent. The tariff war is real, but it's convenient cover — this implosion was baked in when developers were allowed to pre-sell apartments that didn't exist and local governments funded themselves by selling land use rights in perpetuity.

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Sri Lanka's Economic Recovery Underscores the Geopolitics of Debt - IR Insider

India’s Oil Buyers Squeezed by $123 Crude and Weak Rupee

The Indian crude basket hit $123.29 per barrel last week, approaching levels recorded in March 2012, and adding 86% to the price Indian oil marketing companies pay, local media have reported, also noting the effect of a cheaper rupee. Since Indian companies pay for the oil they buy from abroad in U.

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