This week’s sell-off in Chinese high-yield dollar bonds is not a good measure of the stress facing Chinese developers. These bonds account for less than a tenth of developer debt. Their key creditors are domestic banks. Whether developers can refinance their debt therefore depends primarily not on conditions in the offshore market but on the political and regulatory constraints on bank lending.
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