When it comes to manipulating stock markets, there is the Western way in which central banks either directly, or - like in the US - indirectly, thanks to a very close relationship between the NY Fed and the world's most levered hedge fund Citadel, documented here since 2010 - in which central bank trading desks end up buying index futures or merely use massively-sized orders to spoof the market higher (and very rarely lower), and then there is the Chinese way in which the local plunge protection team named the "National Team", which has already spent around $300 billion to...