How M&A debt doping could hurt China’s banks

Chinese firms are taking out more debt on sometimes already leveraged balance sheets to support M&A even as Chinese banks see bad debts mount. What could possibly go wrong?

How long before the first major default of a Chinese corporate or of one of their expensively assembled acquisitions?

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