Shuli Ren, Columnist

Watch China Inc.’s Insider Selling

Billions in cash from abroad won’t move the needle. Look instead at what company management is doing.

Making sense of it all.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

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Foreigners are finally warming to China.

It’s no surprise: In just two months, the country’s stock market has done a 180. Investors from abroad were net buyers of more than 120 billion yuan ($18 billion) of shares this year through Hong Kong’s Stock Connect. In hindsight, MSCI Inc.’s decision to include mainland stocks in its benchmark indexes last May seems like a wise one.