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'Too big to fail' may not apply in China anymore: Goldman Sachs Group

Even for large corporates or for state-related entities, policymakers are much less willing to extend support, analysts said

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Finbarr Flynn | Bloomberg
The size and type of defaults that have occurred in China in recent times indicate that the notion of “too big to fail” may no longer apply to the nation’s borrowers, according to Goldman Sachs Group.
 
There has been a noticeable up-tick in defaults by Chinese state-owned enterprises since late 2019 and some of the borrowers that have failed to repay debt recently, such as China Fortune Land Development, have had large amounts of outstanding bonds, analysts including Kenneth Ho wrote in a report dated Friday.
 
“Even for large corporates or for state-related entities, policymakers are much less