It was not that long ago the “Western” media constantly talked about how insolvant many of China’s banks were, and that they were choked full of bad loans. Obviously, the irony of it was they were talking about their own banks! There... ...full story at Blogging For China
from Blogging For China on Fri, Aug 14 2009
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