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There has been more than a whiff of official desperation in the air over the last few days. With the Shanghai stock market down 29% from its mid-June high, Beijing stepped in over the weekend with a barrage of administrative measures intended to arrest the slide and prevent the ruin of millions of ordinary mainland […]
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