“I don’t think this is a turning point,” David Cui, China strategist at Merrill Lynch, said in a phone interview yesterday. “My sense is that earnings will surprise on the upside and we’ll see a round of earnings upgrades. The government’s monetary policy also hasn’t changed.”

Cui’s view is shared by U.S. fund managers Uri Landesman of ING Investment Management Inc. and Sentinel Asset Management’s Kate Schapiro, who say the stock selloff won’t prompt them to cut their investments in the world’s third-largest economy.

“If you were to put a gun to my head, I would say that China is a buy, not a sell,” said Landesman, who manages $2.5 billion at ING Investment in New York. “China has always been a volatile place and that hasn’t changed in the last few weeks.” Landesman said he’s considering adding to his China holdings.

The stocks will rebound because they were “oversold” and valuations are reasonable, leaving a “safety margin,” analysts led by Yu Jun at Citic Securities Co., the country’s biggest listed brokerage, wrote in a report today. Equities on the CSI 300 Index have dropped to 21 times estimated earnings for 2009 from 27 times on Aug. 3.