China Fights Latest Debt Crisis With Firm That Caused Last One

  • Huarong and peers were told to aid developers, small banks
  • Investors remain jittery and divided over AMCs’ new mandate
China Broadens Real Estate Lending Support to Bigger Cities
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Three months ago, Chinese authorities saved the country’s largest manager of distressed debt from a potentially disastrous collapse.

Now, they’re turning China Huarong Asset Management Co. and its peers into a key line of defense for the $54 trillion financial system as defaults in the property sector soar.