The China Hustle

The China Hustle is a 2017 financial documentary film that reveals systematic and formulaic decades-long securities fraud by Chinese companies listed on the US stock market. The film exposes how investment firms in the United States chance upon unsuspecting Americans who want to get rich by participating in the "China growth story" but do not know much about the country or its companies, leading to spikes in stock prices, siphoning off brokerages, and billions of dollars in losses to US investors. It features interviews with whistleblowers like Dan David, investment bankers, journalists from Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and experts, highlighting the collusion between second and third-tier US-based Wall Street investment firms and small companies based in China.