China’s crushing debt burden is weighing on an unlikely place: one of its top universities
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Peking University Founder Group, a conglomerate majority-owned by the school, for years used its research prowess, elite connections and implicit state backing to expand in industries from electronics to commodities trading and health-care services. International investors helped fund the rapid growth by buying up the group’s debt as recently as last summer.
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