Shares in crisis-hit Chinese property giant Evergrande have been suspended in Hong Kong amid reports its chairman has been placed under police surveillance.
It follows reports earlier this week that other current and former executives had also been detained.
Thursday’s market statement did not give a reason for the trading halt.
But it marks another low for the heavily indebted property giant which defaulted in 2021, triggering China’s current real estate market crisis.
In August, the firm filed for bankruptcy in New York, in a bid to protect its US assets as it worked on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors.
Waiting for the tankards to twist themselves in knots explaining this one
Am I supposed to think a government holding the people running businesses (apparently very poorly in this case) accountable for their actions is a bad thing?
The question is are they being held accountable for doing something illegal, or are they being prosecuted for running a business poorly? One is good, the other is overreach.
Then again, considering how deeply involved the CCP is with large Chinese businesses this could be seen as a completely internal issue.
Chinese government overreach? Surely hell has frozen over /s
I guess both given the massive scale of the business and its massive impacts on the whole economy is reasonable
A bit too late for that isnt it? Chinese government has been propping up ghost shit building for years and now that shit is going down and all of their pockets are full they drop some scapegoats. You just can’t lose as an authoritarian huh.
A public statement “z is detained for y” is generally expected compared to the usual “no one has seen x from china lately, they probably got held by the govt”
Yes, you are supposed to think that a government imprisoning a subject that has committed no crime is a bad thing
Where did you get this information that no crime has been committed and they are just being detained for shits and giggles?
The article?
I don’t know where you live, but in my country people get charged with crimes, then arrested.
The article says no such thing.
And I’m pretty sure your country has some form of investigative detention. If you’re American that can last up to 48 hours. And it really doesn’t matter because authorities there can just throw out charges, deny bail, blackmail people with absurd incarceration lengths into confessing their guilt, and detain them for years before a trial (or forever in some cases). And at any point in time those charges can be dropped.
And if you really want to go into the pros and cons between different justice systems, we can do that but it doesn’t really have much to do with being a tankie or not.
If you’re poor sure, but not CEOs for white collar crime
Bernie Madoff was out and about until convicted
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
So only half building homes and running off with the money isn’t a crime? I see no issue arresting some rich fucks who are screwing the common man
Where do you live? In North America, you get arrested, then you get charged.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Shares in crisis-hit Chinese property giant Evergrande have been suspended in Hong Kong amid reports its chairman has been placed under police surveillance.
When the firm defaulted on its huge debts in 2021, it sent shockwaves through global financial markets as the property sector contributes to roughly a quarter of China’s economy.
A credit crunch would be very bad news for the world’s second largest economy, because companies that can’t borrow find it difficult to grow, and in some cases are unable to continue operating.
Then on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported the firm’s founder Hui Ka Yan, who is also known as Xu Jiayin, had been taken away by police this month and was being monitored at a designated location.
“China’s property-sector stress will continue to pose cross-sector credit risks in the near term,” wrote Lan Wang and Duncan Innes-Ker of Fitch Ratings.
“The government’s modest policy easing to date is unlikely to drive a sharp turnaround in homebuyers’ sentiment, even though it has led to some recent improvements in broader economic indicators,” their report said.
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The company lost 99% evaluation and its shares lost most of its value. Soon this’s going to effect more than China’s economy
