BTW, partook in group dinner Friday and at table be a china real estate guy, two tech guys, alone with wives. Subjects covered were broad and at least included kids education, common prosperity, hong kong, crypto, and and and
(1) All wives at the table sported passports other than China, plus China and all had HK papers. All guys hold HK and China papers.
(2) Given such, believe HK's immigration policy has been brilliant, and highly competitive.
(3) All except my wife and I travelling here there everywhere on 'little jet' as opposed to 'big jet', and therefore vaxxed for whichever place they most travel to.
(4) All super bullish on HK, per 'must do comparisons, and Hong Kong compares well against all other places without even trying'.
(5) All agreed that the Chinese civilisation-state comes first and before all other China China China issues, and whichever political party delivers on that which comes first and before all, gets the collective nod.
(6) All wished to have kids spend one year at a China university.
(7) Other than schooling for the kids, none had any inkling of interest to have anything remotely to do with the USA.
(8) Portuguese, Malta, Cyprus passports are considered good, because such places do not have genuine 'government' as the folks knew it. Had it not been for the travel issue, folks would be happy with papers from Philippines, Thailand, etc etc for the same reasons.
(9) None at the table are fooled by neo-people MSM. People's Daily much more informative if one knew how to read the paper.
(10) None had any issue with CCP common-prosperity, and all happy with the way China being run.
(11) All happy they had true freedom. The freedom of choice, the freedom that must be earned. IOW, the fiction that the freedom one is supposedly born with is absolute utter BS, everywhere, and is a fiction to fool the people by the people against other people, and still works.
(12) No one paid any attention to any China economic stats, and for that matter, economic stats of anywhere else. They seemed to get a feel from respective businesses, and by the sound of it, even for the real estate guy who astutely invests with the tech guys, and did not leverage up, all thought China economy just fine, power 'shortage' and all.
(13) Re bitcoin, folks felt that the government crackdown for several reasons, but mainly to do with capital flight (foreign direct investment), and when ready, China might well re-engage with bitcoin if bitcoin remains a 'thing' stitched into the monetary-financial DNA of other domains. Wrestling back hash production does not have to be any explicit goal. When allowed, the industry would flourish if still a 'thing'
(14) Ultra bullish on blockchain tech.
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