BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signaled on Thursday that Beijing was willing to accept some debt defaults in the world’s second-largest economy as it struggles to clean up its multi-trillion-dollar “shadow banking” sector.

His comments come after the country’s first-ever default on a domestic corporate bond last week and as investors grow worried that other firms could follow suit.

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