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BBC This World - The Great Chinese Crash (2016)

Geoff Riley

9th January 2017

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My Year 13 economists are starting serious preparation for an essay on China in their final preU exam this June.

This documentary from Robert Peston is a good primer on China's slowdown and its potential impact on Britain. Visiting a ghost city and deserted factories in the north east, Peston reveals how China has built up one of the biggest debt bubbles in world history, and questions whether China's economic woes are worse than Beijing is admitting. In the booming south.

BBC This World - The Great Chinese Crash (2016)
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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