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 n