Dear Prof Pettis.
I have been following over a couple of months your work on internet.
I have great respect for the probing way of your dealing with China's economy and capital markets. Even the sheer volume and frequency of your production is a cause for amazement to me.
I am a longtime occasional observer of the Chinese capital markets, In the eighties' when I was Ambassador of the Netherlands in Chine I amused myself (and perhaps raised a few eyebros among ambassador colleagues by speaking in Beijing and Shanghai on the function and pre-conditions of any effective stock exchange.
I did that on a long term interest (and short term experience in the Amsterdamsche Bank NV and the Amsterdam stock exchange) As you know Amsterdam had the first stock market in the world.
Recently I contributed an article to Jamestown Foundation China Brief on the structural peculiarities of the Chinese stock market (tradable vs non tradable etcetera) and the general typical Chinese experimental and groping ways of policy making.
The above is only to demonstrate that my respect for your work has some basis in reality
I pass half of the year in Paris and half in Beijing in a pleasant "si-heyuanr" (as long as it can still withstand the Beijing ongoing destruction = 129 Di An Men Dong Dajie- )
In either city I would be very glad if you came over for a drink of dinner.
Kind regards
Anton Smitsendonk
dutasia@gmail.com
4 rue de Villersexel, Paris 75007
129 Di an men dong dajie Beijing
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