{
  "HubID": "5908",
  "Date": "05/20/2026",
  "Title": "China's implosion",
  "HubTags": ["External Platform Posts", "Future Map"],
  "Contacts": ["contact1", "contact2"],
  "Companies": "",
  "File": "",
  "Image": "china_sectors.jpg",
  "Summary": "This chart captures China in a nutshell.  Exploding industrial production, falling consumer spending, stagnant production investment and a collapsing real estate market.  The country is really imploding because of demographics, a property sector that is in decline (again, demographics) massive production capability that cannot be absorbed locally (again, demographics), and a world that is starting to put up barriers to China’s manufacturing to protect local industries.  A tough situation for the country. What can it do?  "
}