China just hit another record, though not the kind officials want to talk about. No record growth. No record confidence. Not record consumer spending. A record decline in household borrowing. Chinese households are not just borrowing less. They are pulling back at a pace we have not seen before in comparable data. And that is the real warning because this is exactly where China’s worsening downturn becomes much harder to explain away.
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