How more than $100 billion in secret cash was smuggled into China

“Something funny is happening at the Hong Kong border.  Every month, billions of dollars worth of exports simply disappear on their way out of China, but they’re not vanishing into a wormhole. They never existed in the first place. In the first half of 2013 alone, nearly $100 billion sneaked into China in the form of faked export invoices, according to research by non-profit Global Financial Integrity.  Every time China reports a bounce-back in exports, some read it as a sign of a ‘soft landing,’ or that the economy is recovering from its increasingly wobbly state. GFI’s report is another reminder that Chinese trade data can’t be trusted as a sign of what’s really going on in its economy.”

http://qz.com/164743/how-more-than-100-billion-in-secret-cash-was-smuggled-into-china-last-year/

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