{
  "id": 1828569,
  "title": "Bond horror builds towards the end of the West",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/bond-horror-builds-towards-the-end-of-the-west",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-18T23:30:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08/bond-horror-builds-towards-the-end-of-the-west/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "When I first visited China in 2002, I was struck by one thing in particular: how wrong the Western view was that we were going to liberalise it. The scale of China had a ballast that made this impossible. The factories of the Yangtze River, the tearaway development model of Shanghai, and the sheer demographic The post Bond horror builds towards the end of the West appeared first on MacroBusiness .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}