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: