China's economic troubles have dropped on the doorstep of a sun-weathered house at 18 Edgar St. in Port Hedland on Australia's northwest coast. Four years ago, the 50-year-old home, fabricated from cheap asbestos cement, sold for the equivalent of $1.3 million. It's now for sale again — recently priced at $310,000. What happened to $1 million in home equity? It vanished down the China sinkhole. From Australia to Zambia, Chile to Indonesia, the pain of China's sharp economic slowdown is being felt in the form of depressed commodity prices, elevated unemployment and shrunken home prices in towns like Port Hedland that once thrived from supplying materials to Chinese factories. China's...
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