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Analysis: What lies beneath? Hidden debt fears feed China's property woes

Numbers don't lie, you just need to be looking at the right ones. That's the problem for investors searching for the next trouble spot in the Chinese real estate sector as industry giant China Evergrande Group lumbers towards what is expected to be the country's largest-ever corporate default.

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