Why you should never invest in China

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I have been warning of this for nearly a decade as I watched various Australian investment legends blow themselves up in China, including Kerr Neilsen and Hamish Douglass. Investing into China is foolish for one simple reason: the sovereign risk is off the chart.

This is not an academic measure of risk. Nor is it bias nor loyalty to western markets. It’s simply a fact that has been played out time and again because China has seriously malformed macroeconomic settings that lead it to consistently and repeatedly crush foreign investors.

These problems include:

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About the author
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.