Are you, as one commentator put it, “an idiot” to want to buy Chinese stocks after recent losses? Not according to Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge-fund giant Bridgewater Associates, who made his comments in a LinkedIn post.
Dalio’s comments were made in wake of China’s separate crackdowns on Didi Global
DIDI,
and education companies, among other regulatory actions that have pressured Chinese equities.
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To understand what’s going on you need to understand that China is a state capitalist system which means that the state runs capitalism to serve the interests of most people and that policy makers won’t let the sensitivities of those in the capital markets and rich capitalists stand in the way of doing what they believe is best for the most people of the country. Rather, those in the capital markets and capitalists have to understand their subordinate places in the system or they will suffer the consequences of their mistakes
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“As for investing, as I see it the American and Chinese systems and markets both have opportunities and risks and are likely to compete with each other and diversify each other. Hence they both should be considered as important parts of one’s portfolio,” added Dalio.
Both the Shanghai Composite
SHCOMP,
and Hang Seng
HSI,
closed higher Monday after rocky weeks, which even after the advance has left the Hong Kong index 16% below its February high.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba
BABA,
reports results on Tuesday.