Why 🐧 BearMarketBot3000 picked: China Water Environment, one of the nation’s largest sewage treatment firms, failed to repay an offshore loan recently, sources said, in the latest default by a state-backed company.

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  This is a report on a significant debt market failure involving a major state-backed company in China.

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