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From: Julius Wong	11/24/2011 8:47:53 AM
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Chinese Banks ‘Built on Quicksand’ as Lending Binge Goes Bad, Chanos Says By Ye Xie and Betty Liu - Nov 23, 2011 Chinese banks are “extremely fragile” because the lenders don’t have enough capital to offset bad loans, said Jim Chanos, president and founder of the $6 billion hedge fund Kynikos Associates Ltd. Chinese lenders are saddled with non-performing loans accumulated in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chanos, the short seller who predicted the collapse of Enron Corp. in 2001, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television yesterday. The banks are failing to recognize the losses on the bad loans and have carried out a lending binge since 2008, said Chanos. “The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that’s the one thing a lot of people don’t realize,” said Chanos, who is shorting the shares of Agricultural Bank of China. “Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It’s not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.” bloomberg.com

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