Are these numbers real? If so, what are they based on? If they are just examples of what might be found under the hood, that's fine; I'd just be interested in some reliable non-official economic numbers.
That's what we would expect to see in a bubble, criticisms that aren't coming true until the day it pops. How do we distinguish this situation from a bubble?
300% gdp/debt http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-01/china-shoul...
bankrupt shadow banks http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/06cc9b9c-44c4-11e5-b3b2-1672f...
bankrupt state commodity firms http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/the-next-c...
not much reserve reserve http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1756239-china-may-have-to-se...
500 billions in capital flight in Q3 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2015/11/01/a-half-tr...
But yes, it would be good to know what the reality is.
- limit citizens withdraws abroad
- prevent majority holders of more than 5% of a company to sell their shares
- stop the entire stock market from trading after a 7% decline
- limit $50k/year limit transfer out of china
Also, most stock markets have stop-trading circuit breakers.
If China's GDP has been growing at ~1-2%/yr, why does the air in Beijing look like soup?
As to the other points, that seems much more like social/corruption control than anything else.
Smoking gun is capital flight by Chinese themselves.