That goes to internal politics of the Chinese government which is beyond the scope of this post.

John, I've seen your ads on craigslist ha, but anyways, did you check it for Chinese drywall?

I can't help but wonder if these are purchased by Chinese.

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

If it's in a hot neighborhood in NY or CA with Chinese investment pouring in as they flee their home economy, a 6% cap rate ($2.7M!) 

The Chinese have been increasing consumers of US products each year, so if the Chinese are doing poorly, they are purchasing less American products and this affects our stock market. 

Account ClosedNot trying to be a smart a$$ since you are known as the Yoda of Silicon Valley real estate, but WHAT IF there is the slightest chance that the NADAQ crashes 50% to 2500, Chinese Shanghai Composite crashes 70% and Bay Area real estate reverses and drops 5%/year?

This article just came out.http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/08/30/the-chinese...What are people's thoughts?

Chinese Real Estate Buyers in California

And what I mean by Asian, I guess I mostly mean Chinese or Taiwanese -- SGV, Rowland Heights, Irvine, Arcadia, San Marino, Cerritos, Hacienda Heights, Diamond Bar ... many others.