### Summary
Ray Dalio, a renowned investor, believes that China's struggling economy needs a significant debt restructuring, despite economists stating that Beijing won't intervene to support the failing property sector.
### Facts
- Ray Dalio currently has approximately $3 billion invested in Chinese businesses.
- China's struggling property sector, plagued by failing property giants and sinking house prices, is causing concerns about contagion in other industries.
- Beijing is unlikely to step in and prop up developers, even though the sector is described as the "single most important" industry on a global scale.
- China's debt has nearly doubled over the past five years, reaching about 66 trillion yuan ($9.3 trillion), which is more than half the country's annual economic output.
- Dalio suggests that China should undertake a massive debt restructuring, similar to what Zhu Rongji orchestrated in the late 1990s but on a larger scale.
- Dalio believes that China's restructuring would be easier than other countries' due to the majority of debt being held in the country's own currency.
- The two levers to facilitate the "beautiful deleveraging" process in China are deflationary defaults and restructurings, combined with the inflationary measure of printing money.
- Other countries, such as Japan, the United States, and Europe, will also need to deleverage eventually, but Dalio thinks China should take the first step.
- China is currently facing various alarming issues, including intervention in the currency markets, soaring youth joblessness, and a drop in land sales.
- China Evergrande, a major property developer, has filed for bankruptcy protection, and China's largest developer, Country Garden, is on the verge of default.
Billionaire Ray Dalio sees India as a promising investment opportunity due to its recent successful moon landing and projected 7% growth rate, describing it as having the right potential and leadership for growth similar to China in the 1980s. Dalio believes Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has the capacity to influence the world order. On the other hand, Dalio has become less optimistic about China and suggests a massive debt restructuring is needed. Other notable figures, such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Goldman Sachs, also express confidence in India's economic prospects.
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