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your article is from 6 months ago, and is only talking about short term measures they had implemented a few months beforehand.

In 2017 china has has:

Enacted laws that lowered yearly money per person taken from china from $64,000 to $9000[1]

Seen foreign outflow investments drop off a cliff in 2017 (almost 50%!) [2]

Massively restricted allowed classes of foreign investment such as real estate, traditionally one of the few ways private citizens and companies were allowed to take money out of china [3]

Cracked down heavily on bitcoin, an excellent currency exfiltration tech.

Its clear that this is part of a broader trend, please stop reposting this misinformation laden comment.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/housing-marke...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellensheng/2017/07/14/deal-brea...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/08/23/c...




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