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  "id": 15724824,
  "title": "Energy shock could spark Asia’s next debt crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/energy-shock-could-spark-asias-next-debt-crisis",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T08:30:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3371271/energy-shock-could-spark-asias-next-debt-crisis"
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  "summary": "A country need not run out of money to find itself in a debt crisis. It only has to run short of US dollars to pay for its energy. At the recent International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, the IMF, which expects global economic growth of 3.1 per cent this year and 3.4 per cent the next, cautioned that energy-importing and lower-income economies face a harder road, even as…",
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