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China May Need a Bigger Bazooka
This stock-market rout isn’t fixable by quick stimulus. Beijing’s experience holds lessons in overconfidence for India.
Something bigger.
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It looks like Beijing might need a bigger bazooka. Shortly after reports broke that Chinese authorities are considering a bold plan to arrest a stock market rout by seeking to mobilize about $278 billion to prop it up, mainly from the offshore accounts of state-owned enterprises, investors were left unsatisfied — and with yet more questions.