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 | | So they are operating in an unprecedented environment, by Chinese standards, and 3.6 percentage points is also very, very high, certainly by the standard of developed-market economies, where most banks have had their margins competed down to practically nothing. |
 | | Somehow I think the Chinese would be different than the Japanese, and I don't know why, but you know the Japanese keep all of their money in their insolvent banks, and they seem to carry on for long periods of time, most of the 1990s, I guess. |
 | | We hand in the international accounting standard balance sheet to the People's Bank, and they look at it with great interest, and they are aware of the difference, but it's not publicized, and they congratulate us for doing it, but it doesn't lead to any change in any policies. |
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