What a viral post on giraffes says about China's fed-up investors

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Like many Chinese people, Jacky hoped that he could make enough money investing in China's stock markets to help pay for an apartment in a big city..

After that, he shut down his trading account and started investing in Chinese funds that track stocks in the United States...

But Chinese investors are experiencing something especially alarming: financial losses in the markets, declining home values and a government that doesn't want any public discussion of what's happening...

The comments demonstrate a growing loss of confidence by the Chinese public in the stock market, the country's economic prospects and the Chinese Communist Party's ability to govern...

"Under the protection of the U.S. government," wrote one commenter, "the giraffes are 10,000 times happier than the Chinese stock investors."..

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