--- title: Chinese Stock Markets In the Middle of an 'Unprecedented' Slide description: In the three weeks since it reached a seven-year high, the Shanghai Composite Index has lost thirty percent of its value. canonical: https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-03T07:54:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:06.535Z article:section: Business og:title: Chinese Stock Markets in 'Unprecedented' Tumble og:description: State monetary policy has failed to fix the situation. og:url: https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb68745bdabc4cf8/6988598c5f570f2680b1c4d6/rtx1hvu8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5268 og:image:height: 2963 og:image:alt: A man walks past an electronic board showing the benchmark Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices, on a pedestrian overpass at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chinese Stock Markets in 'Unprecedented' Tumble twitter:description: State monetary policy has failed to fix the situation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb68745bdabc4cf8/6988598c5f570f2680b1c4d6/rtx1hvu8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chinese Stock Markets Are in the Middle of an 'Unprecedented' Slide > Sponsored content. 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A man walks past an electronic board showing the benchmark Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices, on a pedestrian overpass at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai, China, June 26, 2015. Aly Song—Reuters by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Jul 3, 2015 7:54 AM UTC In what analysts are describing as an [unprecedented economic situation](http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-shares-plunge-more-5-022054704--finance.html;%5Fylt=AwrXgCMv.ZVVkhMAAkLQtDMD;%5Fylu=X3oDMTByb2lvbXVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--), China’s stock indexes are currently tumbling into a free fall, with panic taking the place of the brash confidence that, until last month, led these markets to rapidly develop into an unsustainable bubble. That bubble appears to have now burst: by early afternoon local time on Friday, the Shanghai Composite Index [had fallen 3.25%](http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SHCOMP:IND) to an anemic 3,785.57 points; in the three weeks since it reached a seven-year high, it has lost 30% of its value. Monetary authorities in Beijing are currently grasping for straws to remedy the situation, but numerous market interventions, including the fourth cut in interest rates since November, have failed to keep investors from frantically selling their Chinese stocks. The turbulent situation is not yet catastrophic, but it illuminates the greater volatilities of China’s fraught existential dynamic: between an autocratic Communist government and the currents of free-market capitalism. In a country where stock investors [now outnumber](http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/chinese-stock-investors-outnumber-communist-party-members/?xid=soc%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter%5FFORTUNE) Communist Party members, if the market heals, it will likely heal itself. Beijing’s economic policies have thus far proven mostly ineffective. Meanwhile, state authorities are attempting to blame the economic instability on calculated “foreign forces,” the _Washington_ Post [reports](http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2015/07/02/foreign-forces-blamed-for-bursting-chinese-stock-market.html). State media outlets have alleged that Morgan Stanley or prominent investor George Soros may be purposely interfering in the Chinese markets. Messages making the rounds on WeChat, the country’s preeminent messaging service, allege that “‘international capital’ — or simply capitalism itself — \[is\] attacking China,” according to the _Post._ In the face of this supposed malfeasance, prominent figures are encouraging their fellow countrymen to have faith in their faltering economy. “Hold stocks with confidence,” was the advice of Fan Shaoxuan, a executive at microblogging service Sina Weibo, according to the _Post_. “Win glory for the country even if you lose the last penny.” ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:05] The global economy has four engines, US Europe, Japan, [00:10] China / Emerging Markets. Of these four engines, the only [00:12] one that was really humming along fine. Is probably US [00:16] slash United Kingdom, Canada. Euro zone is stalling. [00:19] They're one step away from deflation and other recession. [00:23] China is slowing down. Other emerging markets are [00:26] slowing down. So the, one of the [ UNKNOWN ] question is [00:29] will the US be able to decouple from the rest of the world. In [00:32] a world in which actually other country are slowing down, [00:34] the dollar is becoming stronger and so on. So far looks like [00:37] yes. But if the shocks from the rest of the world would [00:40] become worse. Then when have to ask the question [00:42] whether that's gonna have an impact on the United States. [00:46] [ MUSIC ] The US is absolutely becoming much more [00:49] unilateral. In 2015 I think is the first year. Where we really [00:54] are starting to see the United States employ really so [00:58] much more of the 21st century tools [01:03] of national security to get what America wants. It's not [01:06] boots on the ground. That sounds almost quaint. And [01:09] everybody opposes these days, it's drones, it's [01:13] surveillance, and access to US markets as both a carrot [01:16] and a stick, what I call the weaponization of finance. The [01:20] United States is saying a lot more, hey, Afghanistan, [01:24] Iraq. Speaker: [ MUSIC ] Syria. We know you have serious [01:27] problems. But those problems are gonna be resolved, first [01:29] and foremost, by you, on the ground. Not by the United [01:32] States. [ MUSIC ] Speaker: I wanna [01:37] ask you about your thoughts in the Middle East, and [01:40] sectarian conflict. And where are we in this curve? I mean, [01:43] are we at the apex of ISIS? Are we, are things going to get [01:47] better, are they gonna get worse? Speaker: I think we are [01:49] at the apex. Of the Islamic state and its [01:53] capacities in Iraq and even Syria. I think the [01:57] amount of international effort militarily being deployed [02:00] against them supported by, military on the ground from [02:05] the Syrian government, Syrian Army as well as from the [02:07] Kurds and from the Iraqi government absolutely is turning [02:11] the tide. Won't wipe them out. Taking them out of Mosul I [02:15] don't see happening for maybe years. But generally [02:18] speaking I don't think that they're they're not going they're [02:20] not gonna have something that really looks like an [02:23] effective state anytime [02:27] soon. The downside in Russia might be the biggest [02:31] surprise. US policy towards Russia is really oriented [02:35] towards not punishing the Russian people but punishing [02:37] Putin. It's going after the oligarchs that are around him. It's [02:40] trying to change his behavior by undermining his support. [02:42] He understands that. He calls it regime change. He will hit [02:45] back. The United States historically has not had to pay [02:48] attention to people that we didn't like, because if we [02:50] punished them and they didn't like it, they couldn't do much [02:52] to damage us. That's changing. And I absolutely worry [02:56] about a major Russian cyber attack against let's say an [02:59] American financial institution. I absolutely worry about an [03:02] accident or a European commercial airliner over European [03:05] air space. And a Russian military jet. Those kinds of things [03:08] I think in 2015 are becoming a very live concern. [03:14] Xi Jinping leader of China is consolidating power and [03:18] there's a couple of story lines about what this means. One [03:22] is that he's the new Deng and this is all part of this sort of [03:25] greater strategy to. Take China through the next wave of [03:28] reforms that it needs to make the jump to a middle income [03:31] country. The other story line is that he's Mao. And [03:35] it's interesting. [ LAUGH ] That you know, the, there is [03:37] Maoist rhetoric emerging in China right now. Which is he, [03:41] and what does it mean for the Chinese economy, [03:44] [ INAUDIBLE ]? well, my view as a combination of both I, I [03:47] think on China, there's two extreme views. Either there's [03:50] gonna be a soft landing, 7 % plus growth, or 3 % growth [03:53] and hard landing. I think it's gonna be something between [03:56] because he's gonna have to do reforms. But because of [03:58] the political constraints, the reform are gonna be more [04:01] slowly. Than is desirable and optimal, and eventually there [04:04] will be a slow down of growth in China. Consequences of [04:06] now the second largest, or maybe the first largest, [04:09] economy in the world slowing down to 5 1 / 2 % is gonna [04:12] be significant, for China, for Asia, for commodity exporters, [04:16] for the global economy. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/"},"headline":"Chinese Stock Markets Are in the Middle of an 'Unprecedented' Slide","datePublished":"2015-07-03T07:54:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:06.535Z","description":"State monetary policy has failed to fix the situation, and Beijing is growing desperate","url":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/","keywords":["Economics","China","Beijing","stocks","Shanghai","Weibo","stock markets"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb68745bdabc4cf8/6988598c5f570f2680b1c4d6/rtx1hvu8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb68745bdabc4cf8/6988598c5f570f2680b1c4d6/rtx1hvu8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A man walks past an electronic board showing the benchmark Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices, on a pedestrian overpass at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai","caption":"A man walks past an electronic board showing the benchmark Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices, on a pedestrian overpass at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai","creditText":"Aly Song—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/","name":"Chinese Stock Markets Are in the Middle of an 'Unprecedented' Slide"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Global Risks You Should Care About Right Now","description":"A yearly look ahead about what you should—and shouldn’t—worry about in the geopolitical and economic landscape for 2015","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PqXWqYtA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-13T22:16:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PqXWqYtA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/","duration":"PT4M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3945446/china-stock-markets-plummeting/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```