China’s Mortgage Revolt

China’s Mortgage Revolt
Unfinished apartment buildings at China Evergrande Group's Health Valley development on the outskirts of Nanjing, China, on Oct. 22, 2021. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Something rare is happening in China. Protests and boycotts are expanding.
Not for democracy, exactly, as in 1989 in Tiananmen Square and up to 2020 in Hong Kong. The protests today—from Beijing to Guangxi and recently in Hong Kong—are outwardly against property developers who absconded with down payments, never to deliver the promised apartments. These homes now exist as vacant windows—seen but inaccessible to the families who bought them—in lifeless gray hulks that lack the living pulse of electricity, water, elevators, and neighbors.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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