Quote from Martinghoul:
That's right... On a time horizon meaningful to me, the Chinese don't make mistakes, because of the sheer size of their reserves. Whatever they do, that's the mkt. The mkt is always right. Hence my conclusion.
All this applies to govt debt.
They will make just one mistake that will cost them as much as they have earned so far or even more. The same that happens to speculators. Actually they have already made the mistake, it is the belief that they can maintain high growth by just exporting to others, investing the proceeds and spending little to educate and modernize their ancient culture. Sure ticket to disaster. All failed empires made similar mistakes. They placed way too much emphasis on making money and paid too little attention to their structural problem.
