Analysts Warn China’s Offshore-Trading Crackdown May Push Investors to Other Routes

Chinese platforms have removed cross-border investing tutorials as Beijing narrows private routes for mainland investors to access overseas markets.

Traders at a brokerage in Hong Kong in a file photo. Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images

U.S.-based economists and business figures told The Epoch Times that Beijing’s crackdown on offshore stock-trading channels may make overseas investing harder for ordinary mainland Chinese investors, but is unlikely to end demand for assets outside China.

The comments followed an eight-agency campaign by Chinese authorities against offshore securities, futures, and fund platforms that had served mainland investors outside Beijing’s state-controlled investment channels.