April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Investor Jim Rogers is buying Chinese shares, among the world's worst performers this year, as the market has bottomed, and he's focusing on agriculture, tourism, airlines and education. ``All my new money goes to commodities and China,'' said Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum fund with George Soros in the 1970s and correctly predicted the start of the commodities boom in 1999. He spoke at a seminar in Beijing yesterday. ``All the panic looks like a bottom,'' he said. ``I have bought in the last four to five weeks. I've been buying shares in China for the first time in a long time.'' http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=aB4sNJlA4AHo&refer=commodities
Why not put more into shorting investment banks, Citigroup and Fannie Mae? Didn't he say he would aggressively increase that bet if they bounced?