This World
How China Fooled the World
2014 • E3 Feb 18, 2014 60m
China has the second largest economy in the world and has been growing at an astonishing rate for the past 30 years. In a documentary for the This World strand, the BBC's new economics editor Robert Peston reveals that the vast majority of the enormous investments in industry and infrastructure has been built on credit, leaving huge debts and questions over how much of the money can ever be paid back.