tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5534363608056876741..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: China's Offshored WealthMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-5601187179104558652014-01-29T06:27:48.658+08:002014-01-29T06:27:48.658+08:00http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/chinese-h...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/chinese-homebuyers-thronging-sydney-create-mini-bubble-frenzy.html<br /><br />Chinese Homebuyers Thronging Sydney Create Mini-Bubble Frenzy<br /><br />Tina Ford, an Australian public servant, said she could hardly believe it when her three-bedroom apartment sold this month for A$1 million ($877,000) at an auction in which all 16 registered bidders were ethnic Chinese. <br /><br /><br />Australia is becoming another province of China. <br /><br />yankdownundernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-81054771481299605312014-01-25T10:39:21.677+08:002014-01-25T10:39:21.677+08:00Answer to that question has to be that there is so...Answer to that question has to be that there is something to hide, or it wouldn't be hidden. I'd expect them to uncover all sorts of ill-gotten gains from kickbacks, money skimmed from public works projects etc. Well actually I don't expect to see anything uncovered really. Unless the guilty are in the green camp the local media won't cover this kind of story. The loyal and well-trained local media doesn't even need to be asked, let alone threatened, to keep this stuff quiet. Lafayette 'scandal' anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-57834329844608836322014-01-24T12:21:38.573+08:002014-01-24T12:21:38.573+08:00I mean, in Taiwan, there's no capital gains ta...I mean, in Taiwan, there's no capital gains taxes anyways, so there's not really a reason to hide.<br /><br />For Chinese nationals, the issue is both taxes and a lot of the money is illicit or otherwise unseemly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-4950905921923143562014-01-23T12:41:55.679+08:002014-01-23T12:41:55.679+08:00Wonder who the Taiwan perps or peeps are gonna be ...Wonder who the Taiwan perps or peeps are gonna be named in Apple Daily soon? MORE backstory here:<br /><br />http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/236687/reporting-on-offshore-leaks-china-took-six-months-and-news-partners-from-around-the-world/<br /><br /><br /><br />On Thursday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists<br />released the names of more than 37,000 people from China, ***Taiwan****<br />and Hong Kong who use offshore networks to stash their wealth, Marina<br />Walker Guevara said.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com