@Ruprecht
What do you see as the solution to largely Mainland Chinese investors, families, and so on buying up a large amount of good real-estate in Sydney and Melbourne? I have a lot of fair minded colleagues from Melbourne who see it as a big problem, and have been priced out of a lot of places in the market.
Do you see an ethical and legal solution to limit the influx of money and influence?
All economics aside, this is perhaps an even bigger problem culturally.
In all honesty, Beijing creates a quasi-fascist mindset among a lot of citizens about Chinese politics, and then uses their migrants to raise loud voices in a republic that must be heard, and stifles dissent abroad.
As well, especially stifles dissent among Chinese living abroad, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, and often with very blunt and ugly means, and in the States at least they do it with what amount to spies for lack of a better word. "Workers," Chinese Nationals on retainer who serve Beijing, who in mafia terms have no show jobs in the U.S. and will show up on people's doorsteps to intimidate them. That should be wholly unacceptable, but is common practice.
Further, the conditions are not really the Mainlanders fault, but they are fed hand to mouth propaganda, collectivization, and fearsome Nationalism since they can read and write, and Beijing is accelerating those efforts.
How do you stop that rising tide, should the tide be stopped? It seems woefully unfair, and is to dissidents in the States, and to some in the States economically in certain regional schools and neighborhoods. (Although not as much as in Australia due to the distance.)
