Will China’s New “Supply-Side” Reforms Help China? – Pettis

Will China’s New “Supply-Side” Reforms Help China? by Michael Pettis, China Financial Markets It wasn’t enough that we started 2016 with one of the worst weeks in the recent history of Chinese and global markets, but the panic continued into the following weeks and wreaked a great deal of damage to confidence. A lot of the reflexive China bulls are cautioning against misinterpreting the implications of the stock market collapse, and of course they are right, but the fact that the plunging Chinese markets can easily be misinterpreted should not in any way suggest that things are fine. Two weeks…