⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if US-China financial decoupling delists Chinese ADRs?

Audit and security disputes force mass delisting of Chinese ADRs from US exchanges, cutting cross-border capital flows and lifting the bifurcation premium.

18%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 6–29% · 40 analogues · measured class trade_war 87% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 87% in 18 mo87%
Analyst prior · editorial share 21% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 87%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published18%

The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.

The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 6–18 months horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Audit and security disputes force mass delisting of Chinese ADRs from US exchanges, cutting cross-border capital flows and lifting the bifurcation premium. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — China growth ▼ · Financial conditions ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

If it happens — the markets it would move

Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.

MarketClassProjected move
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.8%
hist -1.71–-0.36% · other way +0.28% (n=12)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -0.94–+0.17% · other way +2.93% (n=12)
3Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -0.82–-0.32% · other way +2.7% (n=12)
4Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -0.86–-0.31% · other way +0.44% (n=12)
5Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -0.98–+0.24% · other way -3.17% (n=11)
6TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -0.89–+0.28% · other way +3.77% (n=12)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.0%
hist -17.82–+3.58% · other way -2.51% (n=11)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -1.15–-0.09% · other way +0.32% (n=12)
9Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -1.03–+1.04% · other way +3.64% (n=12)
10Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -1.9–+0.25% · other way +4.23% (n=12)
11Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -0.61–-0.35% · other way +1.94% (n=12)
12ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.98–-0.14% · other way -1.4% (n=12)
13Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.8%
hist -0.85–-0.11% · other way -0.59% (n=12)
14MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -1.23–+1.3% · other way +25.2% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -1.3% · Chinese yuan -0.8% · Aussie dollar -0.5% · Freeport (copper) -0.5% · High-yield credit -0.3% · Turkish lira -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.

China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Record $19bn crypto liquidation cascade 2025-10 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 Evergrande ordered to liquidate 2024-01 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 Offshore yuan hits a record low 2022-11 China fires ballistic missiles into Japan's EEZ during Taiwan drills 2022-08 China homebuyer mortgage boycott spreads 2022-07 Sunac China dollar-bond default 2022-05 Alibaba upsizes buyback to record $25 billion 2022-03 Evergrande debt crisis - global selloff 2021-09 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 Bitcoin May 2021 crash 2021-05 China 'three red lines' developer leverage rules 2020-08 Apple cuts revenue guidance on China weakness 2019-01 US List 3 tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods finalized 2018-09 US Section 301 List 1 tariffs take effect on China 2018-07 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 US Section 232 steel & aluminum tariffs imposed 2018-03 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 China stock-market circuit-breaker fiasco 2016-01 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 Shanghai A-share bubble peak / crash begins 2015-06 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-15.0% · 5d -16.6%72%19 0.32✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-5.3% · 5d -7.4%66%25 0.27✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-1.7% · 5d -1.9%65%39 0.25✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-0.9% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades62%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
KRW KRWSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.0%60%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.8%62%39 0.17✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%60%39 0.17✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.1%62%39 0.17✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades60%40 0.16✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades59%39 0.15⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-3.0% · 5d -2.0%60%39 0.15✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-2.8% · 5d -2.9%58%40 0.14✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.5%57%40 0.12⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-3.7% · 5d -4.5%57%30 0.11✓ matches cascade

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.