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The China Hustle

The China Hustle

There are no good guys in this story.

2018•1h 24m•7.2/10
Documentary

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🎬TMDb
7.2/10(88)

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.

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Production

2929 Productions, Jigsaw Productions, The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Dan David

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Matthew Wiechert

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Carson Block

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Jim Chanos

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Soren Aandahl

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Maj Soueidnn

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Alexandra Stevenson

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Crocker Coulson

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Dune Lawrence

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Drew Bernstein

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Gregory Coleman

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Herb Greenberg

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Jon Carnes

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Kun Wong

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Mitchell Nussbaum

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Paul Gillis

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Ping Wong

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Richard Teitelbaum

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Roddy Boyd

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Wesley Clark

Wesley Clark

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