China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

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December 2007

Hong Kong: Through train is delayed by signal failure

Hong Kong investors have become happily addicted to China’s flip-flop attitude to the so-called "through train" programme, under which mainland investors will in theory be allowed to buy stocks listed in the former UK colony.


Liu Mingkang has suggested the through train is on the wrong tracks

The plan was first launched in August by Beijing’s FX regulator, Safe. Hong Kong stocks predictably soared, on the expectation that the local bourse would soon be flooded with capital from China’s estimated $2.7 billion household savings. A few weeks later, China’s bank regulator, Liu Mingkang, said that he didn’t much like the idea of Chinese capital leaving the country, suggesting the "through train" was on the wrong tracks. ...


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