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The China Canard

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Thanks to a tidal wave of completely-made-up economic “data” from the central planning committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the China stock ETF symbol FXI went up almost 30% from just Tuesday’s low to Wednesday’s high, with many single stocks going up much more. Well, that’s all well and good, but their bull market is totally dead and buried, and Communist lies are not going to fool anyone for too terribly long.

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