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Beijing’s banks set a positive example

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Is China deleveraging? No.
But as Bloomberg’s Tom Orlik pithily puts it, China’s “[debt] problem is getting worse at a slower pace.”
Regulators have to crawl before they can walk, and that is why we welcome any sign like the recently released Beijing bank data (CBN):

“The Beijing ban...