China Creditor Squeeze Prompts Drop in Record Bond Defaults

  • Beijing urges help for troubled borrowers facing payments
  • Move away from bondholder protection could sour some on market
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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China’s painful economic shutdown was expected to have put the world’s second-largest bond market on course for a third straight record year of defaults.