China is the number 1 risk factor I agree... but when Nikkei crashed in the 90's, the US wasn't much affected... and China is arguably more contained than Japan because the local currency is not free flow.
Hell no... Eurodollar Money Markets, which is the biggest money market in the world by far. They call it Eurodollars but it's the market where you can borrow gazillions in US Dollars as long as the lender matches assets/liabilities with other borrowing bank.
china's issue is it's SOE and majority of companies when on a retarded borrowing binge in US Dollars around end 2014 early 2015 when capital outflows where growing out of control, to re-up Foreign Reserves, borrowed a lot... Dollars enter china through loans, swap for yuan, gov keeps USD. Eurodollar loans are 3 months and 6 months expiry's, and normally can refinance to eternity until credit markets freeze, then you are fucked if dependent of refi game. Their shit bonds aren't accepted as collateral anymore since beginning May baosheng 30 % haircuts, they have to pledge sovereign bonds and their own government bonds aren't being bid much compared to rest of the world... They are having extremely serious cash problems if their own government bonds not seeing much bids in a time where rest of the worlds government debt is being furiously bought, on top of that considering they printed around 15-16 Trillion Yuan in Q1 2019 with shadow banking included. This is about as bad economically as it can possibly get for any country with a GDP above 500 Billion a year... This is Central Africa bad, they are so deep in debt down the rabbit hole. In the end the chinese gamed the dumb European Banks who wanted to be part of the " Growth " story... But Europeans aren't really known for money making banks either, they are like Asian banks, they are their to provide loans and stimulate, not profits it seems.
china companies won't pay back European banks, banks seize collateral bonds but isn't worth much, counterparty blow up and big losses... Funding dries up, derivatives activated, Europe's Lehman in 2019. All starts from china, big trouble in lil china