Zhu Guang Yao, a Chinese vice finance minister, bridled at the International Monetary Fund’s claim that shadow banking and poor asset quality were putting China at risk of a “hard landing,” Reuters reported. The minister said on Saturday that though the country suffered from these issues, the IMF’s prescription to rein in risks in shadow banking and liberalize the finance sector was not based on “reality”, and that China had managed its own economic problems better than its Western counterparts. Zhu was responding to comments made by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday in her Global Policy Agenda.
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