Al-Iryani says the warnings are harming his country, and that Yemen's major cities and almost all its roads are safely controlled by the central government.

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Here is why: Before floated in the Shanghai and the Hong Kong Exchanges, Chinese banks operated as government departments, within a central planning environment of controlled interest rates and government mandates.

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Many of us learned in economics 101 that banks create money by depositing the proceeds of a loan in the borrower's checking account, but the total money created is controlled by central banks through the minimal reserves that banks must maintain with them, the fractional reserve system.

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It has long been lavished with tax breaks to attract industry and is controlled by the central government.

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