Such an expert on China you are, although I'll grant you with Alibaba now controlling the paper, the pro Beijing bias is apparent when it comes to sensible political issues (I seldom read it, but last time I checked there was an editorial about Huawei and the US which read like it was written in Beijing - HKers are getting screwed big time when it comes to independence from the Mainland, and not only from the Scmp) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post
Besides you could also quote the following in that article :
"Overall, China’s scale of bond defaults remain low, but the pace of growth is developing rapidly. This year so far, there have already been 18 new credit defaulting entities, exceeding the whole of last year, according to Jiang. Of the new default entities, 17 were private enterprises.
(...)
Despite high corporate debt levels, defaults remained at a low 0.4 per cent of outstanding bonds at the end of July 2018 because state-owned enterprises enjoy implicit guarantees from the government"
Imo you are way more biaised than the Scmp and understand more about Power Point than China. On another thread UK and Europe, here China, according to you all about to collapse, you sound like that dude Littlebicycle 8-9 years ago.