Wednesday, December 3, 2008

China Turns Inward

Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in Hong Kong, the chairman of China’s sovereign wealth fund , Mr. Lou Jiwei, said on Wednesday that China had no plans for further investments in Western financial institutions. “Right now we do not have the courage to invest in financial institutions because we do not know what problems they may have,”

The sovereign wealth fund had invested heavily in Barclays and Morgan Stanley, only to see the value of its investments plummet as the American and U.K. financial sector crashed. 

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