I'm sorry for having to post again, but I've just got to say this is one of the most ignorant pieces of writing of seen on the internet. Ever.
Perhaps I should cheer you on in your dreams of getting rich while helping to prop up the Chinese regime - after all, when the bubble eventually bursts, all those millions of new Chinese capitalists will start demanding the one thing shareholders should be entitled to expect - accountability and the ability to oust an ineffective leadership.
You're entitled to your opinion. As am I.
However, I really do think you should do some more research into the dreadful human rights abuses perpetrated daily by the Chinese government. For instance, look into the brutal repression of trade union or religious campaigns for fairer and safer working conditions. Or take a look at the Amnesty reports on Chinese sweatshops, including the documented use of child labour. Or the forcible removal of thousands of villagers from their ancestral homes in order to build hydro-electric facilities to fuel the insatiable demand for energy created by the great Chinese boom.
Perhaps ask yourself how the Chinese feel about having no say in how their country and its economy are run.
Maybe you might also care to ask yourself whether you feel particularly comfortable investing in a regime whose founding tenet is that all property is the property of the state. Yes, they seem to be softening this stance over the last 5 years. IMHO there remains massive risk to the investor that a more hard-line ideology could very easily be adopted by the Communist party in the next few years.
Ultimately, despite their efforts to control the economy through their heavy-handed interventions, the Chinese government will discover the oldest lesson in the book - the market will always eventually win.
Perhaps I should cheer you on in your dreams of getting rich while helping to prop up the Chinese regime - after all, when the bubble eventually bursts, all those millions of new Chinese capitalists will start demanding the one thing shareholders should be entitled to expect - accountability and the ability to oust an ineffective leadership.
Just my opinion however.
your oxymoronic rant about "communist stock markets"
Furthermore, foreign investors are buying shares in Chinese companies not the Chinese government (although the government typically retains a shareholding in newly listed companies, like the Irish government did with Aer Lingus). You do not seem to be able to distinguish the two.
Once people taste economic freedom they can no longer tolerate political or religious oppression. This is something the Chinese government are in the process of discovering..
The danger is that this stock market crash could lead to political turmoil and/or a backlash against capitalism causing greater oppression of the Chinese people.
Did you not see the bit in square brackets at the beginning about it being a sarcastic rant. Part of my whole point was that having a stock market boom in a tightly-controlled one-party communist state is oxymoronic, illogical, and likely to end in tears.
I am the last person who would wish to see the Chinese people suffer any more than they currently do. However I don't think fear of the unknown is a particularly good reason to protect a disastrous status quo.
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