Blinking in the face of raw capitalism

Beijing has intensified its efforts to steady the country’s turbulent markets but is also denting its reformist credentials.
July 08, 2015

Beijing intensified its efforts on Wednesday to tranquillise China's A-share markets but its methods have raised question marks over how committed this communist-run country is to subjecting itself to the market disciplines of capitalism.

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