Blacklisted debtors in China may feel trapped in the system as the government can hold their salary to recoup the money they owe.

Courts can put people on the blacklist ... loans. “A personal-bankruptcy system is a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth,” Li Shuguang, a scholar who has advised the government on bankruptcy ...

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