China “uninvestable”

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Throughout Australia’s five-year China divorce, one the of most interesting features of relationship breakdown is how much of it is led by Beijing. CCP structural constriction, paranoia and arrogance are its own worst enemy, consistently leading to glass-jawed overreactions, withdrawal from engagement and cancelled deals.

Now the world is witnessing the same phenomenon in China stocks as the CCP cracks down on any sector that it sees as any kind of threat to its power, handing investors their arses in the process. Via Goldman:

(Re)balancing socialism and capital markets

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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.