Doing business in China? Better check your “social credit score”

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Via the FT comes the Chinese Communist Party hastening its own exit from the global economy:

Foreign companies operating in China are unprepared for tougher sanctions under a corporate “social credit” system imposed by Beijing, a European business group has warned.

Chinese regulators from tax officials to customs agents are increasingly rating companies according to compliance with regulations, and sharing “blacklists” of corporations found to have violated rules.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.