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This week, China.
China's economy makes the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The company that was once China's biggest property developer has been ordered to liquidate by Hong Kong's High Court.
Evergrande has liabilities of $300 billion.
This country wants more foreign investment and if these international creditors can't get access to these assets, I think yet again there'll be people questioning should I really be investing that much money in China?
Well, let's stay with China because the authorities are stepping up measures to try to stabilize financial markets.
From today, short selling is restricted.
Nearly about $6 trillion have been wiped.
Off Hong Kong and Chinese stocks in just the last three years since their peak.
For years since permitting private enterprise to flourish in the 1980s, Beijing has benefited from eye watering rates of growth.
It embraces market forces when it's advantageous but retains strict controls over winners and losers.
Economists are now asking can it continue to enjoy the best of both worlds?
China's economy is in desperate need of rebalancing.
It's had that massive period of growth over the last two, three decades from.