‘It’s Time To Accelerate Equity Investment’: China Demands Stock-Buying

China's Securities Regulatory Commission held a "seminar" on Thursday. If you weren't invited, count yourself lucky. These sorts of gatherings are generally convened for one purpose: Exhorting attendees to fix something. In democracies, or in a Western corporate setting, that might mean an opportunity for interested parties to exchange views on the source of the problem and also on possible solutions. In the context of authoritarian regimes, though, the situation is more akin to a lunch meetin