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Re:China Stock Market Drops 8.5% by pjc50 on Monday August 24, 2015 @04:21AM (#10108521)
Systemic shock is likely to be lower than you'd expect, as the Chinese stock market is on the other side of capital controls to the west and so therefore less linked.

I do agree that there's a lot of 1999-like companies around, especially people wanting to do Webvan 2.0.

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Re:China Stock Market Drops 8.5% by toyg on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:58AM (#10108785)
The feared impact is a systemic Asian downturn crashing industrial export towards the area, which in turn would reduce demand for services. Germany in particular is currently being watched, since their industry relies on export towards Asia quite heavily these days (since European demand is overall low). If German giants start feeling the pinch, the startup world in Berlin will inevitably get hit.

From a US perspective I honestly don't know. Chinese investments are mostly one-way anyway (it's hard to take money out of China) so they shouldn't significantly impact any honest balance sheet; however, if Japan and Singapore start going under as well, things might turn ugly all around.

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