If that really is right, an end to Chinese banks' problems may be in sight.
Two problems facing Chinese brands are the country's chronic inventory gluts and stiff local and foreign competition.
Spaceflight, to quote the old cliche, is hard, and at some point the Chinese programme will encounter problems.
Investors are also concerned about the financial problems of Chinese solar companies, which have accumulated heavy debt obligations over the past several years to fund capacity expansion, with the support of local banks and government.
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Mr. Wheatley, a Briton who spent 18 years at the London Stock Exchange before taking the Hong Kong post in 2005, said the problems with Chinese companies listing outside their home jurisdiction, including those that list in Hong Kong, were exacerbated by the fact that regulators seeking more information about a company rely on third-party investigators.
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If there are problems at large Chinese companies, they must be dealt with now.
Buying an American company and hiring American employees can be fraught with legal problems if the Chinese investor is not clearly aware of the allowances given for American workers.
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This is one of the problems with looking at Chinese economic statistics.
Mistakes like this are highly unusual for such a large and prominent Chinese company, and may suggest bigger problems below the surface.
Most producers and importers contacted will acknowledge problems with counterfeiters knocking off domestic Chinese brands, but no further.
The Chinese government strictly controls gambling licenses so the problems that hit Las Vegas with over-supply and competition from Atlantic City and Indian casinos are not an issue.
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Turning again to overseas trading, in a sign of continuing investor worries about Chinese shares following a spate of of governance problems, China Auto Rental reportedly announced yesterday that it would postpone a planned U.S. offering on due to pricing issues.
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The Chinese government has taken many steps to combat these problems.
The fire sale, first reported by David Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle, shows that even as the Chinese solar industry struggles with its own severe financial problems China is poised to scoop up U.S. technology on the cheap.
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Instead, he emphasises his corporate problems, which he says are those of Chinese state enterprises writ large.
Teams and other personnel face problems returning to Europe from Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as most flights from Shanghai to Europe have been cancelled.
Chinese bulls say there are many bad loans sure, but the Chinese government has the fiscal strength to mop up any problems that they bring up in the future and the growth story remains in tact.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.
If both problems worsen, a European meltdown combined with continued Chinese slowing, then the United States goes into a recession.
But even the Chinese gift won't solve all of Dominica's problems.
Milan Brahmbhatt, the World Bank's regional economist, said that while profits at Chinese banks have been growing very quickly, the credit market problems "will not have a huge impact on either profitability or on balance sheets".
Also on Thursday, the Ministry of Commerce confirmed that problems in the core economies have taken a toll on Chinese exports.
Manufacturing growth rates are starting to taper off and the Chinese powerhouse suffering from rising house prices and other sources of inflation problems looks altogether more likely to raise interest rates on account of price pressures even if the economic growth burst is fading.
In the past year three different Chinese companies, Mengniu, Ava Dairy and Yili group have run into problems.
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Shantou may be feeling Asia's crisis more than other Chinese cities, but the rest of the region would be happy for such modest problems.
Chinese officials last month implemented a drastic plan to combat Beijing's persistent pollution problems, taking half of the city's more than 3 million vehicles off the road, temporarily closing factories and chemical plants, and suspending all construction work.
That's the kind of solution the feisty economist thinks genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be for some of China's biggest problems, and the 44-year-old Huang has been pushing Chinese planners for almost six years to allow the commercialization of GM rice.
The Mountain Pass mine, which had been bought in 1977 by Unocal, the oil company, began running into all kinds of regulatory problems concerning waste disposal, just as it was losing market share to cheaper Chinese competitors.
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