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Oh shadow banking. Ohhhh boy. I remember my colleagues telling me about businesses working with gangsters to smuggle in USD/Forex during the early 90's. State loans are definitely much harder to get but Chinese companies do set up subsidiaries and shell companies in Hong Kong to circumvent liquidity problems. I'm in the manufacturing side, so if you have any questions I will try my best to answer them.
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Isn't most of China's high speed rail network mostly for passengers? Do they actually slap freight on it at night?
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FrozenVent posted:The time-value of freight isn't enough to justify using HSR; if you have a cargo that's high value enough you're going to want the added flexibility of trucks or you'll use a train. Plus passengers are self-loading; you'd lose a lot of the advantage on turnaround. That's what I figured. It's mostly container trucks and freight.
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May 12, 2014 01:33
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Speaking of hilarious deliveries, anyone remember Diablo 3? Well the video game was banned in China and sellers/buyers used the code word Da Bo Luo 3. Which literally meant 3 pineapples. Well some nerd paid double the price for the American version of 3 pineapples expecting he will get the game. Nope, he 3 got 3 dole pineapples 
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Aug 30, 2014 06:45
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Can someone please tell me more about India? It is the world's largest democracy after all.
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Sep 27, 2014 02:50
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pentyne posted:Rampant corruption on a level that makes China look modest in some respects. Yes that too, but it doesn't seem to be fragmenting with regional groups trying to secede. Being angry, yes, but outright secession? Not that I know of. Then of course, there's Pakistan
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Well the Shanghai Composite have been extremely active recently because of the Hong Kong - Shanghai Stock through train. It's much easier for Hong Kongers and the outside world investing in the SHanghai stock market through Hong Kong. During the opening week the HK stock market actually tanked and i lost 10% in holdings. But the Shanghai side though it was just rally after rally after rally.
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I can't handle the market changes anymore. I'm cashing out.
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Shifty Pony posted:I had a question about that. Is there an attempt to crack down on this outflow? Is that possible in a country where a bribe can go pretty far? Will we see China start attempting to claw back overseas deposits and investments similarly to how the US has been chasing tax dodging? This is what Hong Kong is and Macau is for. Park your loving money in HKD as it's pegged to the USD. Ardennes posted:Yeah, we will see about that. I think a lot of the "average people" are going to lose their shirts in the coming stock crash. Also, there are other issues of massive corruption and inequality in China that are immensely comparable to the type of poo poo that goes down in Russia, hell China may be the teacher rather than the student in that regard. Hey guys I have shares in the hong Kong stock exchange. at 170, market crashed a bit right after the HK-Shanghai through train and down the price of the stock went to 130's. I'm just back from Australia and last time I checked it's 250. Hell yeah I'm rich. In a really really weird way. Oh and there's going to be a HK-Shenzhen through train. Welp. Another roller coaster ride? Maybe I can make a million USD this time
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Apr 11, 2015 11:45
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol at the implication that Chinese retail investors are sophisticated, financially savvy market actors. There's waaaay too many get rich schemes here and people are dumb enough to buy "limited edition currency" for a 100000000% return after 50 years. All retail investors are dumb. China's government can easily bend the rules and set market limits on whim. Double dumb
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Apr 11, 2015 11:48
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Tell me more about H-shares! Thanks!
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Apr 13, 2015 05:24
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Get rich or die trying. Ok Maybe should try getting a loan and do some margin trading! Well if I sell my nest egg now and and rebuy, I can afford a brand new sky palace!
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Apr 13, 2015 06:01
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Holy loving poo poo. I'm going to cancel my limit at auction orders and double down my money. If I lose money I will toxx myself and donate 1000 USD in Save the Children
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Apr 13, 2015 14:36
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Jumpingmanjim posted:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-13/china-walks-264-billion-tightrope-as-margin-debt-powers-stocks HSI dropped a bit yesterday, Ok Im going to hold on before I sell and make more imaginary profit
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Lots of firms in Southern China are already using robots for production. Foxconn has an automation program to combat rising wages, but robots is not the end all be all of production. Basic parts and components still require cheap engineering, in the mean time GuangDong still remains king.
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Fojar38 posted:Robots they buy from Japan or the US. You mean Japan or Germany/Switzerland. Which source their parts from China. American robots suck because Americans rather off shore everything to save costs.
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Crash or no crash I made more money. I'm going to reinvest for one more roller coaster ride. And what's the name of the Financial product VideoTapir? The biggest one I think is Ali-fund by Alibaba. It's on average 10% yearly gain 4 years straight and you just transfer money from your alipay account. There were quite a few stock crashes in the Chinese market, it's just that lots of people are only starting to get involved in retail trading because capital controls are slowly being eased off. Financial products are actually hard for Chinese retail investors to buy, they have to jump through a lot of hoops. So you end up with shadow banks and proxy trades 
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Yeah there's always going to be some big crash, but in this day and age, wages aren't really going anywhere. Not necessarily dump everything into that one hot stock, but have a basket of investments and a steady portfolio with monthly contributions. What are you guys going to do with your excess money, put it into your regular savings account A term deposit account ? Heck, she can even go RON PAULLLL and buy some spot gold ETF or related fund. When you hit 30 and have 0 investments /long term savings plan you are pretty hosed
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Apr 24, 2015 03:50
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Get this book: 4 pillars of investing in Chinese http://www.amazon.cn/%E5%9B%BE%E4%B9%A6/dp/9862350377/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1429856476&sr=8-8&keywords=%E6%8A%95%E8%B3%87%E9%87%91%E5%BE%8B More about long term savings. You won't be rich but at least it beats having no savings plan at all
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This time I won't give a poo poo about all the naysayers. Yeah the economy's going to tank but it's been a while and I can make some more good money while the market is rolling. This will create another short rally in the stock market before a major correction.
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Make your money before the market implodes, you guys are just losing out 
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Daduzi posted:I doubt they'd need to be discouraged, as long as the company stores stocks instant noodles they'll be flocking there instead of trying any of that foreign garbage. Hey man, Burger kings make anywhere in the world easier to live!
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May 20, 2015 17:11
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I'm rich. But I want to be richer. Im too late to short stocks now but can't wait for the market to hit rock bottom
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Jul 6, 2015 07:49
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Hk economic journal: I do like reading their analysis and the news is not as heavy handed as SCMP.http://www.ejinsight.com/20150817-why-renminbi-devaluation-is-a-one-off-move/ posted:From an economic viewpoint, the renminbi will be excessively strong if it appreciates along with the US dollar. Think the economist recently was saying that there won't be a currency price war as the measures are temporary.
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My put warrants made me a bunch of money so I'm happy. It's no end of the world for now, in the mean time I can make some more for another roller coaster ride!
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AAAANNND IT'S BACK DOWN
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Jumpingmanjim posted:FT reporting that the Chinese Government will stop buying up shares OK im going to make some warrant put calls in the h-index
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Hey Mr Moneybags can you post the full article? Too late I dumped all my year's annual play money based on some forum post. I'm like the reverse banana cart guy
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etalian posted:A shares are domestic shares that are locked out from foreign investors, while H shares are shares traded in the Hong Kong stock market for the same company that can be Um. There was the Shanghai- Hong Kong connect which allowed foreign firms and residents to buy A shares through Hong Kong. Previously the H-index shot up like crazy because the early wave of investors bought H-shares of China company at an arbitrage
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But if everyone shorts, won't that mean the market will stabilize faster  I wonder how rich the finance guys are in China. They get all the heads up information from the government and make crazy killings.
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There's DJI, they make drones. Southern China is still the go to place in the world for semi-conductor components. Even high quality Japanese capacitors and sensors were made in China. Tech parts is a bit mundane but nonetheless is a lot more difficult compared to other components like textiles.
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DJI is a great company because it originally started in Hong Kong Chinese smart phones are adequate. It's pretty decent value for consumers and you can get good specs at low prices. Software wise they look fine but are notorious for cannibalizing open source software or being some sort of apple clone (like most of android). Chinese smart phones and electronics are pretty much the go-to place for low income groups and developing countries.
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Fojar38 posted:It's really easy to integrate a bunch of services into one app when you have a closed economy with very little competition Just because you have some monopoly and trade barriers doesn't mean you can magically create something as good as alipay. Heck EU, Australia are comparatively bad. Japan with its closed portal of cellphone makers, RFID payment system from the 90s was really advanced but nowadays haven't changed much. internet consumer services in China is really awesome and leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the world. Alipay simplifies everything and loves to hire young ambitious graduates to do more crazy poo poo. It's actually a huge battle between wechat and alipay. And other internet apps are fighting each other for respective market share. China apps suck overseas because they don't know how to localize properly and there's the touchy issue dealing with foreign banks and sovereignty. The real protectionist in China is union pay where they don't innovate. Then you have the giant old cartel like VISA and MasterCard who do gently caress all and charge crazy high merchant fees. That's why you can't pay your taxes or use tap and go for low cost transactions like public transportation. Google wallet, Apple Pay, square, heck even PayPal tried to make improvements to consumer finance but got stonewalled by the old guard of banks and credit card systems. Wechat is actually doing pretty well in African countries because no bank wants to go there. But again, localization is a bit iffy and the money they earn is not much. Chinese app makers are more focused on China because they see the rest of the world as too backward and given up on them. If someone can find the number of transactions between wechat/alipay and compare it with visa/master that would be great
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:im actually chinese american, albeit one who doesnt believe in chinese race supremacy and acknowledges the harm a lot of chinese have done to non-chinese poc I'm Chinese Canadian and same. But I don't feel very Canadian any more even though I love Canada 
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Bloodnose posted:Things should go both ways. We'll see what actually happens You like 2 way don't you
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