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China now has 7 of world’s 10 biggest banks as Beijing’s financial ambitions grow
MSM ^ | 9 July 26 | Chelsea Yang

Posted on 07/10/2026 3:15:56 PM PDT by delta7

China's 'big four' banks took the top spots in The Banker's latest global ranking, with JPMorgan Chase following in fifth place China's "big four" state-run banks are the largest in the world in terms of asset scale, a new report has found, underscoring Beijing's rising ambitions to build the country into a global financial powerhouse. The ranking released by The Banker magazine on Wednesday was topped by the four Chinese banks - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of China - with JPMorgan Chase following in fifth place. Chinese banks collectively held US$54.8 trillion in total assets, more than double the US$25 trillion held by US banks in the ranking, data showed. However, the race is not only about size, as US banks continue to hold the advantage in terms of profitability. Chinese banks in the top 1,000 ranking reported combined pre-tax profits of US$392 billion, compared with US$328 billion for US banks....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 50centarmy; banks; chelseayang; concerntroll; concerntrolling; fakenews; fiftycentarmy; redchina; scmp
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The world's Wealth is moving from the West to the East. The economic cycle repeats.
1 posted on 07/10/2026 3:15:56 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Oh. So communism does work?


2 posted on 07/10/2026 3:18:03 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle

Yep. Do these banks hold the debt of the Chinese ghost cities?


3 posted on 07/10/2026 3:21:31 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Texas Eagle

“Oh. So communism does work?”
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China has long since turned into a “mixed economy.” That’s why there are Chinese billionaires.


4 posted on 07/10/2026 3:22:51 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Bob Wills is still the king
Not exactly true. Deng tried to turn the Chinese economy into a capitalist/communist hybrid, but Xi reversed it.

We all know you have a bad case of TDS.

Back away from the keyboard.

5 posted on 07/10/2026 3:25:31 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

Chinese billionaires are tools of the CCP. How stupid are you?


6 posted on 07/10/2026 3:28:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: delta7

Big banks is not really a good thing as we found out about too big to fail.


7 posted on 07/10/2026 3:29:01 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: delta7

Wasn’t China basically a barter economy before mochtar riady hooked up with billy jeff?


8 posted on 07/10/2026 3:31:05 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: delta7

IBTG/CF


9 posted on 07/10/2026 3:32:10 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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To: delta7

I never believe a thing from China


10 posted on 07/10/2026 3:38:38 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

No they have not. Any “Chinese ‘billionaire’” is a Party elite.


11 posted on 07/10/2026 3:43:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: delta7

The wealth is moving back from the East to the West. Mainly to the US. These banks are all state owned, over leveraged, ticking time bombs. Like their real estate companies, one infection kills them all.


12 posted on 07/10/2026 3:45:42 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: RoosterRedux
BTW, stupidity isn't something you are born with. It's a choice.

You brain may be completely adequate and functional. You chose to be stupid.

That's infinitely worse than being born stupid.

13 posted on 07/10/2026 3:49:29 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: delta7

How much in toxic assets (eg ghost cities) do those Chinese banks have on the books? I know they have a LOT.


14 posted on 07/10/2026 3:55:49 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Bob Wills is still the king
Have you become a reader yet? China is not a mixed economy.

Get with it or stop posting.

15 posted on 07/10/2026 3:59:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Hey, Rooster! I hope you know that you posted this to yourself. It makes you look like you are the stupid one. Not that I’m saying you are, but either you have made a mistake or I’m missing something.


16 posted on 07/10/2026 3:59:33 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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Well, I make stupid mistakes all the time.

How bout you? Are you perfect?

17 posted on 07/10/2026 4:01:41 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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“No they have not. Any “Chinese ‘billionaire’” is a Party elite.”
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Of course billionaire’s are “Party Elite.” All billionaires are when it’s in their own economic interest to be so. Even Jack Ma.

That doesn’t change the basic fact that China is not a rationed, command economy as it was under Mao. That’s also why we have high tariffs on Chinese electric cars, since they’re able to produce them at a fraction of our costs.


18 posted on 07/10/2026 4:10:23 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Omnivore-Dan; Bob Wills is still the king

My point is that TDS is a mental illness. I hope you don’t have it. Bob Will is Still the King does.


19 posted on 07/10/2026 4:13:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The last time I asked myself if I was suffering from TDS was never. I support our President, voted for him twice, and donated to his campaign.


20 posted on 07/10/2026 4:18:09 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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